manual alphabet

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   an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions

   Synonymsfinger alphabet

   Broaderalphabet

   Part ofASL

Questions about manual alphabet

What does manual alphabet mean?

manual alphabet means "an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions".

What is another word for manual alphabet?

Close synonyms include finger alphabet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manual alphabet a common word?

manual alphabet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.