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short forms

short forms is the plural of short form.

Meaning of short form

Noun

short form (plural short forms)

  1. A word with the same meaning as another formed by removing one or more of the syllables of the longer word, and considered a word in its own right rather than an abbreviation.
    • Tux is a short form of tuxedo.
    Synonyms:
    clipping, shortening
  2. Particularly in Slavic languages, a shortened form of the adjective, used predicatively.
    • нов, нова, ново, новы (nov, nova, novo, novy) are short forms of новый (novyj).

Questions about short forms

What is short forms the plural of?
Short forms is the plural of short form.

Words near short forms in the dictionary

  1. short film
  2. short films
  3. short finals
  4. short for
  5. short form
  6. short forms
  7. short fuse
  8. short fuses
  9. Short Green
  10. short gross
  11. short hairs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short forms (page history and authors); short form (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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