shortened form

noun

1. an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
2. a contraction or abbreviation.

Example Sentences

Careful speakers pronounce been like bean, not like bin; most speakers, however, use the shortened form in ordinary speech.

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He may incite to greater devotion by a shortened form of Evening Prayer or by popular Vespers.

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The service was a shortened form of evensong, interspersed with many hymns.

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But at a very early period it was thought that Johns book, for example, was a shortened form of John his book.

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The “brake-fern” (Pteris aquilina) is the common “bracken,” and is a shortened form of that northern Eng.

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