Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

06289472-n 'a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds';

Chinese (simplified)	收缩
English	contraction
Japanese	収縮 , 収れん , 緊縮 , 短縮 , コントラクション , 委縮 , 縮約 , 萎縮 , 収斂

Definitions

English: a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
― `won't' is a contraction of `will not'; `o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'
Japanese: 2つ以上の単語から、いくつかの音を省いたり、結びつけたりして作られた単語
― 『won't』は『will not』の短縮である; 『o'clock』は『of the clock』の短縮である

Relations

Hypernym:	word
Semantic Field:	communication_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▶ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.001; Future: 0.374)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00)