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Webster 1913 Edition

Abbreviated

Ab-bre′vi-aˊted

(ăb-brē′vĭ-āˊtĕd)

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Adj.

Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Webster 1828 Edition

Abbreviated

ABBRE'VIATED

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pp.

1.

Shortened; reduced in length; abridged.

2.

In botany an abbreviated perianth is shorter than the rube of the corol.

Definition 2024

abbreviated

abbreviated

English

Adjective

abbreviated ‎(comparative more abbreviated, superlative most abbreviated)

Shortened; made briefer.
The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
Scanty, as in clothing.^[1]

Related terms

Translations

shortened

Dutch: afgekort (nl), ingekort (nl), verkort (nl)
Esperanto: mallongiga
Finnish: lyhennetty (fi)
French: abrégé (fr)
German: abgekürzt
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, n, abreviat (ro) m, n
Russian: сокращённый (ru) ‎(sokraščónnyj), укоро́ченный (ru) ‎(ukoróčennyj)
Spanish: abreviado (es)
Swedish: förkortad (sv)
Turkish: kısaltılmış (tr), muhtasar (tr)
Volapük: pebrefüköl

Verb

abbreviated

simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate

References

↑ Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], ISBN 0-394-43600-8), page 1