The Kings Diction

Common Dictionary

A, a

A, a the first letter of the alphabet in the Aryan languages. In English it has eight sounds, heard in blade, jare, any, man, star, all, what, China.

a (a, a) a the indefinite article, signifying one or denoting an individual object, before collective nouns, and also before plural nouns when the adjective few or the phrase great many is interposed. It is a contraction of an (an unaccented form of A.S. an, one), and is subsituted for it before all words beginning with a consonant sound; an is often retained before unaccented syllables beginning with h aspirate, u and eu sounded as yu

A, the name of the sixth note of the diatonic scale of C Major; la in tonic sol-fa notation.

In logic, the universal affirmative proposition.

In Lloyds Register, A1 denotes a ship of the first class; hence first-rate, excellent.

As an abbreviation, a has various meanings. As a prefix, a has different significations

A sharp (A#), the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. A flat (Ab) the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and G.