Abbreviation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABBREVIATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act or result of abbreviating
• the process of abbreviating something
• a shortened form of a word or phrase
• The act of shortening, or reducing.
• The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
• 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.
• One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
• shortening something by omitting parts of it
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or result of abbreviating; abridgment

Words related to ABBREVIATION

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Words that contain ABBREVIATION

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How to use ABBREVIATION in a sentence

• The words used by Lloyd George on May 18, 1921, in the House of Commons, are a courteous abbreviation of the truth.
• Society came to the door of the palace and deposited cards, with a pencilled abbreviation for a phrase of condolence, the very shortest shorthand of sympathy.
• The term may be objected to, as the result of a grammatical abbreviation, but if not adopted practically, it may do as a poetical synonym for this great lake.
• Adjectives would come under the same rules of abbreviation as nouns and verbs.
• But, for facility of abbreviation, the numerical names, whether of the months or of the days, are perhaps still more convenient.
• Here in the upper country the stream retains its ancient name, the Olt, which is merely an abbreviation of Oltis, unless it be the Celtic origin of the Latin word.
• The log probably only gives an abbreviation of the signification.
• Her name, which, from the ugly abbreviation of Dolly, has gone out of vogue, was popular with our fathers.
• And yet the irreverence is rather in seeming than in reality, for a nickname, a pet-name, an abbreviation, is often the truest token of popular esteem.
• Allowing the abbreviation of QUE, we have 59 letters and one dot here.
• It was the Augustinian Hermits who, coming to Florence about 1260, bought a vineyard close to where Via Maggio, an abbreviation of Via Maggiore, now is, from the Vellati family.
• So Pharbeth was an abbreviation of Pharabeth, or the house of Pharaoh.
• This is so far useful, as to shew that Damasec was an abbreviation of Adamasec, and Damakir of Adama-kir.
• This navy was commanded by the famous Chatillon, who bore the title of Emiralbahr, and by abbreviation Emiral.
• The second may be phonetic, though apparently but an abbreviation of the first.
• To such as fear thee, in every generation, For it endureth without abbreviation.
• Another reason for supposing that he may have been following an instructor is the excessive abbreviation.
• This will be a very summary abbreviation of our labour, if we but hearken unto him a little upon the serious debate and canvassing of this my perplexity.
• The next paragraphs of the address will be given without abbreviation.
• The most important of these modifications is the abbreviation of the speech process involved in thinking.
• ME stands for Mid Equator, but the abbreviation is sufficient.
• His name was Nebuchadnezzar, but he only answered to the familiar abbreviation of Neb.
• No one was mentioned except by his or her first name or by some intimate diminutive or abbreviation.
• Abbreviation Left hand up, while the R foot is moving and the L hopping.
• There is no surer sign of popularity than a popular abbreviation of this sort, unless it is a pet nickname.
• Why is a short gallop called a canter? Because of its abbreviation from Canterbury, the name of the pace used by the monks in going to that city.
• We called the abbreviation of the working day an experimental scheme.
• The incident of Parson Trulliber mistaking his fellow-priest for a pork-merchant, on account of his coarse garments, is excellent, but will not bear abbreviation.
• In one of the little red circles the doctor had traced that abbreviation.
• The omissions leave the play sometimes better and sometimes worse, and seen made only for the sake of abbreviation.

Similar words containing ABBREVIA without suffix tion

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