abbreviated

English

Pronunciation

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

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 (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, 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), page 1

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