alphabetically

Adverb

Meaning

In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ABCs alphabet originally initially increasingly exactly gradually fundamentally logically alphabetical alphabetic consecutively incompletely abecedarian alphabetize
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Antonyms

secondly lastly end last finally ultimately
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Examples

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. Casey Stengel

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically. Mary Doria Russell

You lads line up alphabetically by height. Archie Knox

the list was arranged alphabetically Source: Internet

Another method is for numbers to be sorted alphabetically as they would be spelled: for example 1776 would be sorted as if spelled out "seventeen seventy-six", and 24 heures du Mans as if spelled "vingt-quatre.. Source: Internet

Consequently, Icelanders refer to one another by their given name, and the Icelandic telephone directory is listed alphabetically by first name rather than by surname. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

alphabetical printer alphabetical system alphabeticality alphabeticalness alphabetician alphabeticise