an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses
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Abridgment
//əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ.mənt//
Synonyms for "abridgment" (112 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (56)
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13 entriesTranslations
40 translations across 11 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπιτομή noun (shortened version)
Bulgarian
4 entries- резюме́ noun (shortened version)
- скъся́ване noun (state of being abridged)
- скъся́ване noun (shortened version)
- скъсяване noun (act of abridging)
Dutch
4 entries- bekorting noun (act of abridging)
- excerpt noun (shortened version)
- ingekorte versie noun (state of being abridged)
- verkorting noun (act of abridging)
French
1 entries- raccourcissement noun (act of abridging)
German
4 entries- Auszug noun (shortened version)
- Beschneiden noun (act of abridging)
- Kurzfassung noun (shortened version)
- Kurzform noun (shortened version)
Japanese
2 entries- 縮小 noun (state of being abridged)
- 要約 noun (shortened version)
Latin
1 entries- breviārium noun (shortened version)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- abstrakt noun (shortened version)
- konsentrat noun (shortened version)
- oppsummering noun (shortened version)
- referat noun (shortened version)
Portuguese
4 entries- abreviação noun (act of abridging)
- abreviação noun (shortened version)
- resumo noun (act of abridging)
- resumo noun (state of being abridged)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- giorrachadh noun (act of abridging)
- giorrachadh noun (state of being abridged)
- giorrachadh noun (shortened version)
Spanish
2 entries- compendio noun (shortened version)
- versión abreviada noun (shortened version)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The article which embodied my researches having proved somewhat too long for its purpose, an abridgment of it only was inserted in the Encyclopædia.
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When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious.
Source: wiktionary
What abridgment have you for this evening? What masque? what music?
Source: wiktionary
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