Helen Fenton

Abbey: Definition and part of speech

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Abbey

  1. n. The church of a monastery.
  2. n. A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abbot: Definition and part of speech

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Abbot

  1. n. One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.
  2. n. The superior or head of an abbey.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abbreviate: Definition and part of speech

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Abbreviate

  1. n. An abridgment.
  2. v. t. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
  3. v. t. To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
  4. a. Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
  5. a. Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abbreviation: Definition and part of speech

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Abbreviation

  1. n. One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
  2. n. The act of shortening, or reducing.
  3. n. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
  4. n. The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abbreviator: Definition and part of speech

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Abbreviator

  1. n. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
  2. n. One who abbreviates or shortens.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abbreviature: Definition and part of speech

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Abbreviature

  1. n. An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
  2. n. An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.