abbreviator

n. 缩写者

发音

UK /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ/
CA
UK /-ɛɪ.tɚ/
US /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɚ/

词形变化

abbreviators 复数 abbreviators

别名

abbreviater

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who abbreviates or shortens.

  2. 2.

    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.

    历史 宗教

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

abridger

上位词 3

redactor reviser rewriter

词源

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

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