Meaning

1 senses

  1. To form into an acronym.

Examples

18 sentences

  1. Yanni uses a lot of acronyms.

    ruЯнни использует много аббревиатур. — Sablin

    deYanni benutzt eine Menge Akronyme. — Nins

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  2. Do you know the meaning of these acronyms?

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  3. A backronym is an acronym that's specially constructed to fit an existing word.

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  4. The word immediately before your name should be an acronym of your title.

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  5. FANBOYS is an acronym for the most common coordinating conjunctions in the English language.

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Origin

Borrowed from German Akronym (from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “end; peak”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma

Borrowed from German Akronym (from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “end; peak”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”)), modelled after Homonym and Synonym, first attested in German in the early 1900s and in English in 1940. By surface analysis, acro- (prefix meaning ‘beginning; high’) + -onym (suffix meaning ‘name’)

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Forms

acronyms, acronyming, acronymed, acronymed
Base formacronym · to acronym
3rd person singularacronyms
Present participleacronyming
Past simpleacronymed
Past participleacronymed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyacronym
he, she, itacronyms

Past simpleLesson

all personsacronymed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave acronymed
he, she, ithas acronymed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill acronym

Word family

2 related words
Relatedmnemonicacrostic

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
acrimoniousacrobatacrobaticsC2acropolisacrossA2
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