abridger
US/əˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɚ/
abridger noun: one who abridges, a person who shortens written works.
Noun
abridger (plural abridgers)
- One who abridges, a person who shortens written works.
- […] while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a...1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December...
- I am an abridger. When I tell people, at a party for instance, that I am an abridger, their faces cloud with confusion and I always have to explain. What I do is take the written work of other people and compress it.1985, Carol Shields, “Accidents”, in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, published 2004, page 47
- Synonyms:
- summarizer
Synonyms of abridger
Forms of abridger
| plural | abridgers |
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Origin of abridger
From abridge + -er.
Questions about abridger
- What does abridger mean?
- Abridger means one who abridges, a person who shortens written works.
- What part of speech is abridger?
- Abridger is a noun.
- How do you pronounce abridger?
- Abridger is pronounced /əˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of abridger?
- The plural of abridger is abridgers.
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