abstract
English
/ˈæbˌstɹækt/, /ˈæbˌstɹækt/, /ˌæbˈstɹækt/, /ˌæbˈstɹækt/
noun
Definitions
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- (arts) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English abstract borrowed from Latin abstractus (drawn away, drawn away from).
Origin
Latin
abstractus
Gloss
drawn away, drawn away from
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abstractable English
- abstracted English
- abstractedly English
- abstractedness English
- abstracter English
- abstractest English
- abstracteth English
- abstractification English
- abstractify English
- abstraction English
- abstractional English
- abstractionism English
- abstractionist English
- abstractionistic English
- abstractive English
- abstractively English
- abstractiveness English
- abstractly English
- abstractness English
- abstractor English
- microabstract English
- nonabstract English
- nonabstracted English
- nonabstractive English
- overabstract English
- reabstract English
- semiabstract English
- semiabstraction English
- unabstract English
- unabstracted English
- abstrakti Finnish
- abstractus Latin
- Abstrakt German
- abstrakt German
- astratto Italian
- abstrait French
- абстра́кт Russian
- абстракт Russian
- абстрактный Russian
- abstracto Spanish, Castilian
- abstrato Portuguese
- abstrakt Swedish
- abstraccyone Middle English
- abstract Middle English
- abstractif Middle English
- abstractly Middle English
- abstrakt Danish
- abstracte Catalan, Valencian
- abstracto Galician
- abstract Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- abstrakta Ido
- abstract Middle French
- אַבסטראַקט Yiddish
- апстракт Macedonian
- abstraict Dalmatian
- abstracto Aragonese
- abstractor
- abstractly
- abstracted
- unabstract
- reabstract
- abstracter
- abstraction
- nonabstract
- abstracteth
- abstractify
- abstractest
- abstractive
- abstractable
- semiabstract
- unabstracted
- abstractness
- overabstract
- abstractedly
- abstractional
- microabstract
- nonabstracted
- abstractively
- abstractedness
- abstractionism
- nonabstractive
- abstractionist
- semiabstraction
- abstractiveness
- abstractionistic
- abstractification