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Meaning of ABBREVIATOR

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[n]  one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
 

ABBREVIATOR is a 11 letter word that starts with A.

 

 Synonyms: abridger
 
 See Also: redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ab*bre"vi*a`tor\, n. [LL.: cf. F. abbr['e]viateur.]
1. One who abbreviates or shortens.
2. 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.
 

 

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