a
/ə,ā/
determiner
- used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation."a man came out of the room"
- used to indicate membership of a class of people or things."he is a lawyer"
- used when expressing rates or ratios; in, to, or for each; per."typing 60 words a minute"
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.
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a feminine singular ending of nouns borrowed from Latin and Greek, also used in New Latin coinages to Latinize bases of any origin, and as a Latin substitute ...
capitalized : the one of the four ABO blood groups characterized by the presence of antigens designated by the letter A and by the presence of antibodies ...