abbreviated

abbreviated

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbɹiːvieɪtɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɪd/

Adjective

abbreviated (comparative more abbreviated, superlative most abbreviated)

1. Shortened; made briefer.

   The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.

2. Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
3. Scanty, as in clothing.[1]

Related terms

• abbreviate
• abbreviation
• abbreviating

Translations

shortened

Chinese: Mandarin: 简略的 Dutch: afgekort (nl), ingekort (nl), verkort (nl) Esperanto: mallongiga Finnish: lyhennetty (fi) French: abrégé (fr) German: abgekürzt (de) Greek: συντετμημένη (syntetmiméni) Hungarian: rövidített (hu) Interlingua: abbreviate (ia) Italian: abbreviato (it)

Japanese: 略した (ja) (ryaku shita) Korean: 단축 된 (danchug doen) Polish: skrócony Portuguese: abreviado (pt) Romanian: prescurtat (ro) m or n, abreviat (ro) m or n Russian: сокращённый (ru) (sokraščónnyj), укоро́ченный (ru) (ukoróčennyj) Spanish: abreviado (es) Swedish: förkortad (sv) Turkish: kısaltılmış (tr), muhtasar (tr) Volapük: pebrefüköl

Verb

abbreviated

1. simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate

References

1. Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], →ISBN), page 1