summary

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin summārius, from Latin summa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməɹi/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophone: summery

Adjective

summary (comparative more summary, superlative most summary)

Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
A summary review is in the appendix.
Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
(law) Performed by skipping the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
Summary justice is bad justice.

Derived terms

summarily

Translations

concise

Bulgarian: сбит (bg) (sbit), кратък (bg) (kratǎk)
Catalan: sumari (ca)
Czech: stručný (cs)
Esperanto: maldetala
Finnish: tiivistetty (fi), lyhyt (fi)
French: sommaire (fr)
Georgian: მოკლე გადმოცემა (moḳle gadmocema), შეჯამება (šeǯameba)
German: zusammenfassend (de)
Hungarian: összefoglaló (hu), összefoglalt, áttekintő, kivonatolt, rövidre fogott
Irish: achomair
Italian: sommario (it) m, riassunto (it) m, resoconto (it) m, rapporto (it) m, in breve, in sintensi
Japanese: 概略的な (がいりゃくてきな, gairyakuteki na)
Malayalam: സാരസംഗ്രഹ (sārasaṅgraha), സംഗ്രഹ (saṅgraha)
Portuguese: sumário (pt), conciso (pt), resumido (pt), resumo (pt)
Spanish: sumario (es)
Swedish: summarisk (sv)
Walloon: rascourti m

performed speedily

Bulgarian: безцеремонен (bg) (bezceremonen)
Catalan: sumari (ca)
Finnish: pika- (fi), summittainen (fi)
French: sommaire (fr)
Hungarian: (accelerated) gyorsított, (of jurisdiction, justice, court, proceedings, procedure, esp. in military law) rögtönítélő
Italian: sommario (it) m, sommaria f
Polish: doraźny (pl) m
Portuguese: sumário (pt), resumo (pt)
Spanish: apurado (es), a todo dar
Swedish: summarisk (sv)

cutting the procedures of a normal trial

Bulgarian: по съкратена процедура (po sǎkratena procedura)
Finnish: pika- (fi), summittainen (fi)
French: sommaire (fr)
Hungarian: sommás
Italian: sommario (it) m, sommaria f
Portuguese: sumário (pt), resumir (pt)
Spanish: sumario (es)
Swedish: summarisk (sv)

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} summier (nl)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} estratto (it) m, ^{(please verify)} compendio (it) m, ^{(please verify)} sommario (it) m

Noun

summary (plural summaries)

An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.
make a summary of the events

Synonyms

précis
upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)
Thesaurus:summary

Derived terms

executive summary
in summary
management summary
metasummary
microsummary
midsummary
summarize
summary diligence
summary judgment
summary offence
summary proceedings

Translations

condensed presentation

Albanian: përmbledhje (sq) f
Arabic: خُلَاصَة‎ f (ḵulāṣa), مُلَخَّص‎ m (mulaḵḵaṣ)
Armenian: ամփոփում (hy) (ampʿopʿum), համառոտ շարադրանք (hamaṙot šaradrankʿ)
Azerbaijani: xülasə
Basque: laburpen
Belarusian: рэзюмэ́ n (rezjumé)
Bulgarian: резюме́ (bg) n (rezjumé)
Catalan: resum (ca) m, sumari (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 摘要 (zaak⁶ jiu³)
Mandarin: 摘要 (zh) (zhāiyào)
Cornish: berrskrif m
Czech: souhrn (cs) m, shrnutí n, resumé (cs) n
Danish: resume (da) n, resumé n
Dutch: samenvatting (nl) f, overzicht (nl) n, opsomming (nl) f
Esperanto: enhavtabelo
Estonian: resümee, kokkuvõte
Finnish: yhteenveto (fi), lyhennelmä (fi), tiivistelmä (fi)
French: résumé (fr) m, sommaire (fr) m, récapitulation (fr) f, compte rendu (fr) m
Galician: resumo m
Georgian: შემაჯამებელი (šemaǯamebeli)
German: Zusammenfassung (de) f
Greek: περίληψη (el) f (perílipsi), σύνοψη (el) f (sýnopsi)
Hebrew: תַּמְצִית‎ (he) f (tamtsít)
Hindi: सारांश (hi) m (sārānś), ख़ुलासा m (xulāsā)
Hungarian: összefoglaló (hu), összefoglalás (hu), összegzés (hu), kivonat (hu), áttekintés (hu), summázat, foglalat (hu), esszencia (hu)
Ido: rezumo (io)
Irish: achoimre (ga) f, achoimriú m
Italian: riassunto (it) m, sommario (it) m
Japanese: 要約 (ja) (ようやく, yōyaku), 概要 (ja) (がいよう, gaiyō), 大要 (ja) (たいよう, taiyō)
Kazakh: түйіндеме (tüiındeme)
Khmer: សរុប (km) (saʼrop)
Korean: 요약(要約) (ko) (yoyak), 개요(槪要) (gaeyo), 대요(大要) (daeyo)
Kyrgyz: кыскача (kıskaça)
Lao: ສະລູບ (sa lūp), ສະລູບຄວາມ (sa lūp khuām)
Latin: breviārium n, summārium n
Latvian: kopsavilkums m
Lithuanian: santrauka f
Macedonian: резиме́ n (rezimé)
Malay: ringkasan
Malayalam: സംഗ്രഹം (ml) (saṅgrahaṃ), സാരസംഗ്രഹം (sārasaṅgrahaṃ)
Maori: whakarāpopoto, whakarāpopototanga
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: oppsummering m or f, sammendrag (no) n, resumé n, resymé n
Nynorsk: oppsummering f
Pashto: خلاصه‎ (ps) f (xolāsa)
Persian: خلاصه‎ (fa) (xolâse), چکیده‎ (fa) (čakide)
Polish: streszczenie (pl) n, skrót (pl) m, podsumowanie (pl) n
Portuguese: resumo (pt) m, sumário (pt) m
Romanian: rezumat (ro) n
Russian: резюме́ (ru) n (rezjumɛ́), кра́ткое изложе́ние n (krátkoje izložénije), ито́ги (ru) m pl (itógi), конспе́кт (ru) m (konspékt)
Scottish Gaelic: giorrachadh (gd) m, geàrr-chunntas m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: резѝме̄ m, саже́так m
Roman: rezìmē (sh) m, sažétak (sh) m
Slovak: zhrnutie n, resumé n
Slovene: povzetek m
Spanish: resumen (es) m, sumario (es) m
Swedish: sammanfattning (sv) c
Tagalog: buod
Tajik: хулоса (xulosa)
Thai: สรุป (th) (sà-rùp)
Turkish: özet (tr)
Ukrainian: пі́дсумок m (pídsumok), резюме́ n (rezjumé), сти́слий ви́клад m (stýslyj výklad)
Urdu: خُلاصَہ‎ (ur) m (xulāsā)
Uzbek: xulosa (uz)
Vietnamese: tóm tắt (vi) (總悉)
Yiddish: קיצור‎ m (kitser)

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Telugu: ^{(please verify)} సారాంశము (te) (sārāṁśamu)