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abbreviator

UK/əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ/US/əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɚ/

abbreviator noun: a person who abbreviates or shortens.

Noun

abbreviator (plural abbreviators)

  1. A person who abbreviates or shortens.
  2. (historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was 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.

abbreviator meaning in Bengali and Arabic

abbreviator in Bengali

সংক্ষেপক, সংক্ষিপ্ত রূপে উপস্থাপনকারী

abbreviator in Arabic

one who abbreviates
مُخْتَصِر muḵtaṣir

Forms of abbreviator

pluralabbreviators

Origin of abbreviator

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

Questions about abbreviator

What does abbreviator mean?
Abbreviator means a person who abbreviates or shortens.
What is abbreviator in Bengali?
Abbreviator in Bengali is সংক্ষেপক, সংক্ষিপ্ত রূপে উপস্থাপনকারী. See Abbreviator meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is abbreviator?
Abbreviator is a noun.
How do you pronounce abbreviator?
Abbreviator is pronounced /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ/ (UK).
What is the plural of abbreviator?
The plural of abbreviator is abbreviators.

Words near abbreviator in the dictionary

  1. abbreviating
  2. abbreviation
  3. abbreviationitis
  4. abbreviations
  5. abbreviative
  6. abbreviator
  7. abbreviatorily
  8. abbreviators
  9. abbreviatory
  10. abbreviature
  11. abbreviatures

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abbreviator (page history and authors); abbreviator (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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