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shortest

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /????t?st/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????t?st/

Adjective

shortest

  1. superlative form of short: most short; Least in stature, length or height.
    The two-word poem "Fleas", by Ogden Nash, is arguably the shortest poem in the English language.

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shorter

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /????t?/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????t?/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
  • Hyphenation: short?er

Adjective

shorter

  1. comparative form of short: more short.
    There are two routes to get there. We're in a rush so we'll take the shorter one.

Related terms

  • shortest

Translations

Noun

shorter (plural shorters)

  1. (colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
  2. (Britain, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
    • 1858, George Borrow, The Romany Rye (volume 2, page 128)
      My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang of shorters, and sometimes shortened money, […]

Anagrams

  • Rothers, rhetors, rothers

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