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St
Abbreviation
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St is a short form of .
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St is a short form of street.
letter
Noun
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A letter is a symbol which makes up part of a word.
The word fly has 3 letters: f, l and y.
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A letter is a written message or note.
I received a letter through the post.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
Yiddish
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noun
a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
alphabet
Noun
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An alphabet is a list of the letters used to spell words by representing phonemes.
The first 3 letters of the alphabet are A, B and C.