abbreviation as a noun: - 1
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abbreviation
noun
1 abbreviation
A shortened form of a word or phrase.
Roget 596:
compend,
compendium;
abstract,
precis,
epitome,
multum in parvo [Lat.],
analysis,
pandect†,
digest,
sum and substance,
brief,
abridgment,
summary,
apercu,
draft,
minute,
note;
excerpt;
synopsis,
textbook,
conspectus,
outlines,
syllabus,
contents,
heads,
prospectus.
album;
scrap book,
note book,
memorandum book,
commonplace book;
extracts,
excerpta†,
cuttings;
fugitive pieces,
fugitive writing;
spicilegium†,
flowers,
anthology,
collectanea†,
analecta†;
compilation.
recapitulation,
resume,
review.
abbreviation,
abbreviature†;
contraction;
shortening
etc.
201;
compression
etc.
195.
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Roget 201:
shortness
etc.
adj.;
brevity;
littleness
etc.
193;
a span.
shortening
etc.
v.;
abbreviation,
abbreviature†;
abridgment,
concision,
retrenchment,
curtailment,
decurtation†;
reduction
etc.
(contraction)
195;
epitome
etc.
(compendium)
596.
elision,
ellipsis;
conciseness
etc.
(in style)
572.
abridger,
epitomist†,
epitomizer†.
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Dutch: verkorting, abbreviatie, abbreviatuur, afko, afkorting, breviatuur
Polish: abrewiacja
2 abbreviation
Shortening something by omitting parts of it.
Moby thesaurus: abbreviature, abrege, abridgment, abstract, apocope, aposiopesis, astriction, astringency, blue-penciling, bottleneck, bowdlerization, brief, cancellation, capsule, censoring, censorship, cervix, circumscription, clipping, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compend, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, condensed version, consolidation, conspectus, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, crasis, curtailment, cutting, decrease, deletion, digest, diminuendo, draft, editing, elision, ellipsis, epitome, erasure, expurgation, foreshortening, head, hourglass, hourglass figure, isthmus, knitting, narrow place, narrowing, neck, omission, outline, overview, pandect, precis, pruning, puckering, pursing, recap, recapitulation, reduction, retrenchment, review, rubric, shortened version, shortening, skeleton, sketch, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, striking, summary, summation, survey, syllabus, syncope, syneresis, synopsis, systole, telescoping, thumbnail sketch, topical outline, truncation, wasp waist, wrinkling ... show more.
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