ABRIDGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abridger mean? 

• ABRIDGER (noun)
  The noun ABRIDGER has 1 sense:

1. one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work

  Familiarity information: ABRIDGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABRIDGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

abbreviator; abridger

Hypernyms ("abridger" is a kind of...):

redact; redactor; reviser; rewrite man; rewriter (someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication)

Derivation:

abridge (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements)

 Context examples 

And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)