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short title

short title noun: an abbreviated form of entry for a book in a list or catalog that usually gives only the author's name, the title in brief, the date and place of publication, and the publisher's or printer's name.

Noun

short title (plural short titles)

  1. An abbreviated form of entry for a book in a list or catalog that usually gives only the author's name, the title in brief, the date and place of publication, and the publisher's or printer's name.
  2. (Commonwealth, Philippines, US) A title given to an act (or other piece of legislation) to facilitate citation; generally used as the common name for that legislation.
    • The short title of this Act is the Companies Act 2006.2006, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Companies Act 2006, section 1298

short title meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

short title in Tamil

குறுந்தலைப்பு, சிறுதலைப்பு, சிறு தலைப்பு

short title in Indonesian

abbreviated form of entry
judul pendek

Forms of short title

pluralshort titles

Questions about short title

What does short title mean?
Short title means an abbreviated form of entry for a book in a list or catalog that usually gives only the author's name, the title in brief, the date and place of publication, and the publisher's or printer's name.
What is short title in Tamil?
Short title in Tamil is குறுந்தலைப்பு, சிறுதலைப்பு, சிறு தலைப்பு. See Short title meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is short title?
Short title is a noun.
What is the plural of short title?
The plural of short title is short titles.

Words near short title in the dictionary

  1. short temper
  2. short tempers
  3. short term
  4. short terms
  5. short time
  6. short title
  7. short titles
  8. short ton
  9. short tons
  10. short track
  11. short tracks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: short title (page history and authors); short title (Tamil 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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