abridgerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɚ/

名詞

abridger (plural abridgers)

1. One who abridges, a person who shortens written works. [First attested in the mid 16 century.]
   • 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

     […] 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.

   • 1985, Carol Shields, “Accidents”, in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, published 2004, page 47:

     I am an abridger. When I tell people, at a party for instance, that I am an abridger, their faces cloud with confusion and I always have to explain. What I do is take the written work of other people and compress it.

同意語

• See summarizer

参照

アナグラム

• brigader