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Definition: Abridgement |
AbridgementNoun1. A shortened version of a written work. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abridgement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Information | A shortened version of a work, retaining the essential character and theme of the original. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AbridgementSynonyms: abridgment (n), capsule (n), condensation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Abridgement |
| Specialty definitions using "abridgement": Grendel. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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| Author | Quotation |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Abridgement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abridgement" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "abridgement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | oorsig (abridgment, abstract, resumé, resumй, summery). (various references) | |
Albanian | shkurtim (abbreviation, abridgment, clipping, contraction, crop, curtailment, cut, cutback, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, shrink, shrinkage, the ax, the axe), përmbledhje (abridgment, abstract, argument, budget, compendium, condensation, corpus, Garland, Miscellanea, miscellany, peroration, precis, reader, summary, summing up, synopsis), konspekt (abridgment, abstract, compendium, conspectus, epitome, note, scheme, sketch, summary, syllabus, synopsis). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملخص (abstract, compendium, digested, outline, summarized, summary, summed up), الملخص (synopsis), الموجز (summary, synopsis), إختصار (curtailment, cut, limitation, pithiness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съкращение (abbreviation, curtailment, cutback, diminution, reduction), съкращаване (abbreviation, reduction, retrenchment), съкратено издание, скъсяване (contraction, curtailment, retrenchment, shortening), резюме (abstract, analysis, argument, capsule, conspectus, digest, epitome, memorandum, precis, recap, recapitulation, round up, run down, summary, synopsis), резюмиране (summing up), ограничение (barrier, bondage, circumscription, constraint, limitation, modification, restriction), ограничаване (immurement, limitation, qualification, repression, restraint, retrenchment, stint, stricture), намаляване (abatement, attenuation, ax, axe, comminution, contraction, decrement, deduction, degression, depletion, diminution, dipping, impairment, lessening, reduction, relaxation, shrinkage, wane), намаление (curtailment, cutback, decline, decrease, discount, rebate, reduction, run down). (various references) | |
Chinese | 节略 (Abridgment). (various references) | |
Czech | zkrácené vydání. (various references) | |
Danish | overblik (abstract, resumé, summery), forkortet udgave af dokument (abridged document, epitome), forkortet dokument (abridged document, epitome), forkortelse (abbr., abbrev., abbreviation, shortening). (various references) | |
Dutch | verkorting (abbreviation, abridgment, shortening), afkorting (abbr., abbrev., abbreviation, abridgment). (various references) | |
Esperanto | resumo (abstract, resum@, summery), mallongigaĵo (abbreviation). (various references) | |
Finnish | lyhennelmä (abridged document, abridged version, abstract, brief version, condensed version, epitome, summary), epitomi (abridged document, epitome). (various references) | |
French | abrégement (abbreviation), abrégé (abbr., abbreviated, abridged document, abridgment, abstract). (various references) | |
Frisian | gearfetting (abstract, resumé, summery), ôfkoarting (abbreviation). (various references) | |
German | Verkürzung (contraction, cutting short, decrease, ending, foreshortening, narrowing, reduction, shortening), Kurzfassung (abbreviated version, abridged version, abridgment, abstract, brief version, condensed version, summary), Kürzung (abatement, abridgment, ax, axe, cancellation, curtailment, cut, cutback, reduction, retrenchment, shortage, shortening). (various references) | |
Greek | επιτομή (abridged document, abstract, compendium, condensation, digest, epitome, overview). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קצור (abbreviation, brevity, curtailment, reduction, resume, shortening, summary, terseness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rövidítés (abbreviation, abridgment, contraction, redaction, short), kivonat (abridgment, abstract, digest, educt, epitome, essence, excerpt, extract, extraction), jogkorlátozás (abridgment). (various references) | |
Indonesian | singkatan (abbreviation), penyingkatan, pemendekan, pelanggaran (breach, contravention, encroachment, infringement, offence, violation). (various references) | |
Italian | riassunto (abbreviation, abridged document, abstract, brief, digest, epitome, precis, short, summary), sommario (abstract, brief, contents list, digest, pre-view, resumé, resume, rough, summary, summation, summery, syllabus, table of contents), abbreviazione (abbr., abbrev., abbreviation, abridgment, curtailment). (various references) | |
Korean | 초본 (Abridgment, herbal). (various references) | |
Malay | singkatan (abbreviation). (various references) | |
Manx | girraghey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, contract, foreshorten, shorten, shortening), giare-chummey (abstract, compendium). (various references) | |
Norwegian | utdrag (excerpt, extract), forkortelse (abbreviation). (various references) | |
Papiamen | abreviashon (abbreviation), resúmen (abstract, resumé, summery). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abridgementay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resumo (abridgment, abstract, brief, compendium, condensation, digest, docket, epitomize, excerpt, extract, playbill, precis, resume, summary, summery, syllabus, synopsis). (various references) | |
Romanian | abreviere (abbreviating, abbreviation, abridgment), simplificare (abridgment, simplification), scurtare (abridgment, curtailment), rezumat (abridgment, abstract, argument, brief, capsule, compendium, conclusion, digest, docket, epitome, recapitulation, resume, sketch, summary, synopsis), reducere (abatement, abridgment, compression, contraction, curtailment, cut, deflation, degression, derogation, discount, dockage, drawback, drop, rebate, reduction, retrenchment, sinking), prescurtare (abbreviation, abridgment, contraction, curtailment, shortening), limitare (abridgment, confinement, finitess, limitation, narrow mindedness, restriction, stint), conspect (abridgment, abstract, conspectus, outline, summary, syllabus). (various references) | |
Russian | сокращение (abbr, abbrev, abbreviation, abridgment, breviary, cancellation, constriction, contraction, curtailment, cutback, cutting down, dockage, сокр., reduction, retrenchment, shortening, shrinkage, shrinking). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uskraćivanje, skraćenje (abbreviation, abridgment, curtailment). (various references) | |
Spanish | resumen (abridgment, abstract, conspectus, precis, recap, recapitulation, resumé, resume, summary, summation, summery, summing up), compendio (abridgment, compendium, condensation, digest, epitome, overview, shortening, summary). (various references) | |
Swedish | sammandrag (abridged version, abridgment, abstract, brief, brief version, collective statements, condensed version, digest, epitome, precis, summary, synopsis), förkortning (abbreviation, abridgment, contraction, shortening). (various references) | |
Turkish | kisaltma (abbreviation), kısaltma (abbr, abbreviation, compendium, compress, compression, condensation, curtailment, retrenchment, shortening, summary), özetleme (compression, summariness, summarizing, summation, summing up), özet (abstract, brief, compendium, compress, condensation, conspectus, digest, epitome, extract, gist, outline, precis, resume, roundup, short, sum, summary, summation, synopsis). (various references) | |
Ukranian | скорочення (abatement, abbreviation, abridgment, ax, axe, cancellation, castration, contraction, curtailment, cutback, pruning, retraction, retrenchment), скорочений текст (abridgment), короткий виклад (abridgment, capsule), конспект (abridgment, abstract, compendium, conspectus, epitome, outline, precis, recap, recapitulation, scheme, summary, syllabus, workbook), обмеження (abridgment, circumscription, confinement, corslet, cramp, derogation, limitation, qualification, restraint, restriction, stint, swaddling clothes). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tóm tắt (abbreviation, abridgment, summarization), sự rút ngắn (abridgment), sự giảm bớt (abatement, abridgment, decrement, diminution, taking-in), sự cô gọn (abridgment), sách tóm tắt sự hạn chế (abridgment), b i tóm tắt sách (abridgment). (various references) | |
Welsh | talfyriad (abbreviation). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | breviarium, conpendii, epitoma, epitome. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abridgement": abridgements. (additional references) | |
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"Abridgement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abbregement, obligement. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-i-m-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: abridgment, germinated. | |
-2 letters: debarment, denigrate, emigrated, gaberdine, garmented, geminated, germinate, gratineed, margented, reteaming. | |
-3 letters: adeeming, antimere, bantered, bargemen, bearding, begrimed, berating, beringed, breading, breaming, breeding, bregmate, debating, dementia, derating, detainer, diameter, dreaming, emigrant, emigrate, geminate, gendarme, gradient, gratinee, interage, interbed, margined, metering, midrange, migrated, rebaited, rebating, redating, regained, regiment, reimaged, remained, remating, reminted, retained, tabering, timbered, treading. | |
-4 letters: abridge, ambient, amender, angered, antired, arenite, barding, bartend, beadier, beading, beadmen, beamier, beaming, bearing, beating, bedeman, bedmate, bedtime, begrime, beignet, bemired, benamed, berated, berimed, betaine, birdman, birdmen, brained, breamed, brigade, brigand, darting, debater, deeming, demerit, deraign, derange, detrain, dimeter, dingbat, dirtbag, dragnet, dreeing, emerita, emirate, endgame, energid, enraged, ermined, etamine, gambier, garment, gatemen, germane, germina, gradine, grained, grandee, granite, granted, grantee, gratine, greaten, grenade, inarmed, inbreed, ingrate, integer, mangier, margent, marting, matinee, meander, meatier, mediant, mediate, meeting, megabit, merited, metring, migrant, migrate, minaret, mintage, mitered, negated, negater, ragtime, raiment, reading, readmit, reagent, reaming, rebated, rebegan, rebegin, redbait, reeding, reedman, regimen, reginae, reigned, reimage, remated, renamed, retimed, retinae, tabered, tangier, teaming, tearing, teeming, tegmina, terming, trading, trained, trainee, treeing, triaged, tribade. | |
-5 letters: abider, admire, aedine, aeried, agreed, aidmen, aigret, airmen, airted, ambeer, anteed, ardent, argent, arming, badger, badmen, bagmen, baited, baiter, bander, bandit, banged, banger, banter, barege, barged, bargee, baring, barite, barmen, barmie, bating, batmen, beamed, beaned, beanie, beaten, beater, bedamn, begird, begirt, begrim, bemean, bemire, bename, bender, berate, berime, betide, betime, binate, binder, binged, binger, bireme, bregma, bridge, brined, daimen, damner, danger, daring, dating, dearie, debate, degame, degami, degerm, demean, dement, denari, denier, derate, detain, dieter, dinger, dragee, dreamt, earing, earned, eating, edgier, emetin, emigre, endear, endite, engird, engirt, engram, enigma, enrage, entera, entire, ergate, ermine, etamin, gained, gainer, gaited, gaiter, gambir, gambit, gamete, gamier, gamine, gander, garbed, garden, garnet, geared, gender, genera, gerent, german, germen, girned, girted, graben, gradin, grated, gratin, grimed, ideate, imaged, imager, imaret, inbred, ingate, inmate, itemed, magnet, maiden, maigre, manege, manger, mantid, margin, marine, marted, marten, martin, mating, meager, meagre, meaner, meanie, meated, mediae, median, medina, menage, mender, merged, metage, metier, meting, metred, midget, minder, minted, minter, mirage, mitred, neared, neater, negate, nereid, nidget, ragmen, rained, ranged, ranted, ratine, rating, reagin, reamed, rebait, rebate, rebind, redate, rediae, reding, reedit, reemit, regain, regent, regime, regina, reined, remade, remain, remand, remate, remend, remind, remint, rename, rented, retain, reteam, retied, retime, retina, retine, riband, rident, ringed, tamein, taming, tandem, tanged, taring, teamed, teared, teeing, tegmen, tender, teniae, terbia, termed, tiered, timber, timbre, tinder, tinged, tirade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-i-m-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: abridgements. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 72 69 64 67 65 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... .-. .. -.. --. . -- . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100111 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b r i d g e m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0072 0069 0064 0067 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3568847570737179718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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