Definition of "abecedarian" [a•be•ce•da•ri•an]

• One who teaches or studies the alphabet. (noun)
• One who is just learning; a beginner. (noun)
• Having to do with the alphabet. (adjective)
• Being arranged alphabetically. (adjective)
• Elementary or rudimentary. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In a wider sense the name acrostic is applied to alphabetical or "abecedarian" poems."
• "Graphic designer Paul Thurlby brings a distressed retro-modern sensibility to capital letters with "Paul Thurlby's Alphabet" Templar, 64 pages, $16.99 , a stylish take on the traditional abecedarian primer."
• "Hamby writes: These poems are from a twenty-six-poem sequence of abecedarian sonnets at the center of All-Night Lingo Tango."