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Unabridged

Definition: Unabridged

Unabridged

Adjective

1. (used of texts) not shortened; "an unabridged novel".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unabridged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Antonym: abridged (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unabridged

English words defined with "unabridged": comprehensiveO.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unabridged

DomainTitle

Books

  • Harpercollins Robert French Unabridged Dictionary: French-English/English-French (reference)

  • Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged w/CD-ROM (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Unabridged Version Of Dewey Decimal Classification - Cd-rom (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unabridged

"Unabridged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unabridged" is used about 10 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Unabridged

Expressions using "unabridged": unabridged dictionary unabridged text. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unabridged

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unabridged dictionary

63

unabridged

22

unabridged audio book

14

websters unabridged dictionary

14

online unabridged dictionary

12

oxford unabridged dictionary

5

websters revised unabridged dictionary

5

dictionary line unabridged

3

dictionary free unabridged

3

unabridged websters

3

unabridged book on tape

3

unabridged book

3

random house websters unabridged dictionary

3

dictionary free online unabridged

2

unabridged english dictionary

2

dictionary international new third unabridged websters

2

english unabridged zohar

2

17 tower two unabridged

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unabridged

Language Translations for "unabridged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pashkurtuar. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

цял (cool, entire, full, good, intact, integral, integrate, livelong, overall, perfect, regular, right, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unbroken, undivided, whole). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

未 节. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nezkrácený (unabbreviated, uncut), kompletní (complete, exhaustive, full). (various references)

   

Danish

  

uforkortet tekst (unabridged text). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

volledige tekst (unabridged text). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مختصرنشده , مشروح (Elaborative, Punctual), کوتاه نشده , کامل (Absolute, Complete, Culminant, Exact, Intact, Integral, Large, Main, Mature, Perfect, Plenary, Stark, Thorough, Unmitigated, Unqualified, Whole), تلخیص نشده . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lyhentämätön. (various references)

   

French

  

intégral. (various references)

   

German

  

ungekürzt (uncut, unexpurgated). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πλήρησ (absolute, clear, complete, flush, pregnant, pregnant with, replete, stark, straight out, thoro, thorough, thoroughgoing), ασυντόμευτοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

teljes terjedelmû. (various references)

   

Italian

  

non abbreviato, integrale (complete, comprehensive, integral, outright, uncut, undivided, wholemeal), completo (absolute, all, all out, all round, arrant, blank, clear, complete, dead, entire, full, full up, implicit, inclusive, integral, intimate, out and out, outfit, outright, overall, perfect, round, set, sound, stark, suit, thorough, total, totally, utter, whole). (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuyiarrit (uncensored). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abridgedunay

   

Portuguese

  

não resumido (uncut), integral (integral, integrate, whole), completo (absolute, all out, all-around, all-out, all-round, arrant, bijou, clean, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, egregious, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

neprescurtat, complet (absolute, all out, broad, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, every inch, exhaustive, fairly, flat, full, fully, good, hollow, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, utter, utterly, whole), întreg (clear, complete, entire, exclusive, full, integer, integral, round, safe, sound, total, unbroken, unimpaired, unit, whole). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

полный (absolute, abysmal, all out, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, flush, fraught, fubsy, full, full-bodied, full-length, implicit, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, portly, rotund, round, seamless, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, uncut, utter). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neskraćen (full time, unabbreviated, uncut). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin abreviar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oförkortad (unabbreviated), oavkortad (entire, full length, unabbreviated, uncut). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kısaltılmamış (unabbreviated, uncurtailed, uncut, unshortened), özetlenmemiş. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không tóm tắt; nguyên vẹn, không cô gọn, đầy đủ (complete, completely, full, fully, handle, plenary, replete, richly, sufficing, teetotal, tuberose). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unabridged

Misspellings

"Unabridged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anabridged, unabidged, unabraded, unabridegd, unabrideged, unabridge, unabridger, unabrigded, unabriged, unabringed, unabrisged, unbridge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unabridged"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unabridged" (pronounced u'nubri"jd)
6-u b r i" j dabridged.
5-b r i" j dbridged.
4-r i" j dridged.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unabridged

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-g-i-n-r-u"

-1 letter: unbraided, unbridged.

-2 letters: abridged, bearding, bradding, brandied, breading, brigaded, dreading, readding, underbid, ungirded, ungraded.

-3 letters: abridge, bandied, barding, beading, bearing, bedding, braided, brained, branded, bridged, brigade, brigand, brinded, budding, dandier, daubier, daubing, daunder, deraign, drained, dungier, gaudier, gradine, grained, grinded, guarded, radding, reading, redding, unaided, unaired, unbraid, undried, uranide.

-4 letters: abided, abider, adding, argued.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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