"alphabets" in the noun sense
1. alphabet
a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
2. rudiments, first principles, alphabet, ABC, ABC's, ABCs
the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural
"he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
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