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Second letter of the Latin alphabet
B is the second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is bee, plural bees. Wikipedia →
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📖 Definitions
Letter The second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
Letter Transliterates the Cyrillic letter б.
Symbol A voiced bilabial plosive.
Symbol [b]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [b]-release (e.g. ⟨ɡᵇ⟩ for [ɡ͡b]), [b]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [b].
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Antony and CleopatraWilliam Shakespeare · 1734
Ab urbe conditaTitus Livius · 1481
Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 1558
Commentarii de bello gallico et de bello civiliGaius Julius Caesar · 1471
CleopatraH. Rider Haggard · 1881
ἹστορίαιἩρόδοτος · 1494
ἈνάβασιςXenophon · 1623
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and UnabridgedEdward Gibbon · 1776
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