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noun
a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately; an initialism.
verb (used with object)
to make an acronym of: The committee's name has been acronymed MIKE.
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Origin of acronym
First recorded in 1940–45; acr- + -onym
grammar notes for acronym
OTHER WORDS FROM acronym
ac·ro·nym·ic, a·cron·y·mous [uh-kron-uh-muhs], /əˈkrɒn ə məs/, adjective ac·ro·nym·i·cal·ly, adverb
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What doesacronym mean?
An acronym is a word formed by abbreviating a phrase by combining certain letters of words in the phrase (often the first initial of each) into a single term.
Common examples of acronyms include NASA (an acronym for National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and FOMO (a slang acronym for fear of missing out). The word scuba comes from an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
Although acronym is sometimes used generally to refer to any term formed from this kind of abbreviation, it typically refers to ones that can be pronounced as a word. This is sometimes contrasted with an initialism.
What's the difference between an acronym and an initialism?
Initialism is sometimes used as a synonym for acronym, but most technically it refers to an abbreviation in which each initial is pronounced separately (instead of pronouncing them together as a single word, as in scuba or NASA). For example, FBI is an initialism of Federal Bureau of Investigation; TMI is an initialism of too much information.
Acronyms are often associated with their use in certain fields that use a lot of technical terms, like science, tech, and the military. But they're popular in all kinds of contexts since they're an easy way to make long phrases much shorter.
Example: STEM is an acronym that stands for "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics."
Where doesacronym come from?
The first records of the word acronym come from the 1940s. It comes from a combination of acr- (a variant of acro–, meaning "tip end" and referring to using the first letters of each word in a phrase) and –onym, meaning "name" (as seen in words like synonym, antonym, and pseudonym).
Some common words started as acronyms: radar comes from an acronym for radio detection and ranging; laser comes from an acronym for lightwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. As you can see in these two terms, acronyms are not always formed from just the first initial of each word, and not every word in the phrase always contributes a letter. There aren't any strict rules—acronyms are typically formed in whatever way results in a word that's easy to say.
This is the most technical sense of acronym—an abbreviation pronounced as a word. But it's often used in a more general way to refer to any abbreviation, such as common text and chat abbreviations like brb and ttyl. These are more technically called initialisms.
Some abbreviations can be pronounced both as single words and letter-by-letter. For example, ASAP (for as soon as possible) is commonly pronounced A-S-A-P, but it can also be pronounced AY-sap. Still, terms like brb, ttyl, and ASAP are commonly thought of as acronyms.
Acronyms are commonly used to abbreviate organization names, but they're used in all different contexts, including science, the military, government, slang, and pop culture.
Sometimes, people try to claim that a word actually came from an acronym when it really didn't. This is called a backronym. Popular examples include the word posh, which is said to come from the phrase port out, starboard home, and tag, which is said to be an acronym for touch and go. Neither of these are true.
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How isacronym used in real life?
Acronyms are used in all kinds of contexts. People sometimes criticize government agencies and other organizations for using too many acronyms, since it can be hard to know what they all mean.
You've heard of STEM?
Well, I propose we now work for the inclusion of LEAF.
Literature, Economics, Anthropology, and Futures.
Hey, we're all part of the same plant, right?
What's your disciplinary acronym?
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— APStylebook (@APStylebook) December 20, 2016
I'm queen of shortening words. I've done it as far back as I can remember & shorten things that don't even need to be shortened. BUT these youngsters got me all hung up trying to figure out the acronyms these days. Ex: It took me til 9pm on Mon of MDW to figure out what MDW meant
— Tiera Joy ✨ (@TieraBolt) May 26, 2020
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Acronym and initialism always mean the same exact thing.
How to use acronym in a sentence
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Savvy shoppers love the acronym BOGO, because it means "buy one, get one" free.
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Even the brand's nam Avre—an acronym for "authentic, versatile, responsible, empowered"—embodies the brand's platforms.
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It really shows how specific and isolating all these acronyms can be.
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Figuring out when an acronym is appropriate can be tricky, says Barnett.
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A group of researchers in Australia, including a marine ecologist and a statistician, looked at almost 25 million scientific articles between 1950 and 2019, searching for trends in acronym use.
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Bae," for example, is a term of endearment that is either short for "baby" or an acronym for "before anyone else.
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He used the Arab acronym for ISIS or ISIL, as the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" commonly is known.
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Try not to laugh when you notice what the acronym for said foundation is.
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RICO is the acronym for the Racketeer-influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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The acronym of the embodying League of the Common Fate is SOS.
British Dictionary definitions for acronym
noun
a pronounceable name made up of a series of initial letters or parts of words; for example, UNESCO for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Derived forms of acronym
acronymic or acronymous (əˈkrɒnɪməs), adjective
Word Origin for acronym
C20: from acro- + -onym
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for acronym
A word formed by combining the beginning letters of a name or phrase, as in WASP for white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or by combining the initial syllables of a series of words, as in radar, which stands for radio detecting and ranging.
notes for acronym
Acronyms are often less clumsy than the complete expressions they represent and are easier to write and remember.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
What Does the Abbreviation Me Stand for
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