title: Easy Alphabet! / &iexcl;Abecedario f&aacute;cil! (English and Spanish Edition)
author: Ana Gmez
description: <div>Ana G&#243;mez has a degree in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, and has worked in some of the most prestigious publicity agencies in Spain. She's currently the Art Director at MRM in Madrid.<BR><BR></div>
zlib_text: **The New Oxford American**
  
   **Dictionary**
  
   **Contents**
  
  About this book
  
   **The Dictionary · AZ**
  
  Key to the Abbreviations
  
  Key to the Pronunciations
  
  **About this Book**
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2005 by Oxford University Press, Inc  
  eBook Copyright © 2008  
    
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  Kreutzfeldt Electronic Publishing GmbH, Hamburg (Germany)  
  
  **A**
  1![](Images/image39888.gif)![](Images/image39890.gif)![](Images/image39888.gif)
  (also a)
  
  ![](Images/image39892.gif) _n._ ( _pl._ **As** or **A's** )
  
  ![](Images/image39895.gif)**1** the first letter of the alphabet.
  
  ![](Images/image39897.gif)![](Images/image39898.gif)
  
  ![](Images/image39897.gif)![](Images/image39899.gif) denoting the first in a
  set of items, categories, sizes, etc.
  
  ![](Images/image39897.gif)![](Images/image39899.gif) denoting the first of two
  or more hypothetical people or things: _suppose A had killed B._
  
  ![](Images/image39897.gif)![](Images/image39899.gif) the highest class of
  academic mark.
  
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