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WordNet Dictionary |
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[n] one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work |
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ABBREVIATOR is a 11 letter word that starts with A. |
| Synonyms: | | abridger |
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| See Also: | | redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| 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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