1. a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino); [syn: Hebrew alphabet, Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Hebrew script
n 1: a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for
writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish
and Ladino) [syn: Hebrew alphabet, Hebraic alphabet,
Hebrew script]