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Welcome To Abbreviation Dictionary
A shortened form of a word or phrase used for brevity in place of the
whole, consisting of the first letter, or the first few letters, followed
by a period (full stop), for example, assoc. for association or P.O. for
post office. Some terms have more than one abbreviation (v. or vol. for
volume). Abbreviated abbr. Also used as an umbrella term for any shortened
form of a word or phrase, not an acronym, initialism, or contraction,
for example, the postal code CT for Connecticut.
a shortened form of a word or words, either the use of initials instead
of a whole word, for example: FFE (Friends for ever) or the first few
letters, for example: approx. for approximately.
An acronym is a label formed from the beginnings of words (Greek: acro
[head] and nym [word]) -- or very rarely, from letters in the middle of
words. There is no requirement that an acronym be pronounceable as a normal
word (this is a curious myth perpetuated by American dictionaries): IBM
is just as much an acronym as LASER.
The Abbreviation is a database of more than 334,000 abbreviations and
acronyms about computers abbreviations, Chat abbreviations, Scientific
abbreviations and many more.
What's an Acronym?
Here's an example of an acronym:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization = NATO
An acronym is a pronounceable word formed from each of the first letters
of a descriptive phrase. An acronym is actually a type of abbreviation.
Our database contains abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms and we
make no distinction between them in our database or on our site. We are
more interested in defining "acronyms" for you than we are in
trying to properly distinguish between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms.
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Acronyms and Other “Onyms”
How many words can you think of that end in -onym? Antonym and synonym
are two. Antonyms are words with opposite meanings. Synonyms are words
that mean the same thing. The ending, or suffix, comes from the Greek
word onyma, which means “name.” Words that end in -onym are
names for a type of word.
Acronym
A word or name formed by combining the first letters or groups of letters
from a phrase. For example, SCUBA comes from self-contained underwaterbreathing
apparatus.
Aptronym
A name that's especially suited to the profession of its owner. For example,
Sally Ride, the astronaut.
Capitonym
A word that takes on a new meaning when capitalized. For example, polish
(pol-ish), Polish (Polish).
Charactonym
The name of a literary character that especially suits his or her personality.
For example, Charles Dickens's Scrooge is a miser.
Eponym
A real or mythical person from whose name a place, a thing, or an event
is taken. The earl of Sandwich, for example, the first person to ask for
meat between two slices of bread, is the eponym of the modern sandwich.
Heteronym
Two or more words with identical spelling but different meaning and pronunciation.
There are so many bows. How about bow and arrow? Bow of a boat?
Homonym
Words that sound alike (and are sometimes spelled alike) but name different
things. For example, die (to stop living) and dye (color).
Pseudonym
From the Greek pseud (false) and onym (name), a false name or pen name,
used by an author. Mark Twain is a pseudonym for Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Toponym
A place name or word that began as the name of a place, such as hamburger
(from Hamburg, Germany) and afghan (a soft blanket from Afghanistan).
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