acronym

ac·ro·nym  (kr-nm)

n.

A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.

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[acr(o)- + -onym.]

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acro·nymic, a·crony·mous (-krn-ms) adj.

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acronym

Noun

a word made from the initial letters of other words, for example UNESCO for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization [Greek akros outermost + onoma name]

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acronym

a word formed from the initial letters or syllables taken from a group of words that form the name of a company, product, process, etc. — acronymic, acronymous, adj.

See also: Names

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

acronym - a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name snafu - an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up MPEG - a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards descriptor, form, signifier, word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" DINK - a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids) weakly interacting massive particle, WIMP - a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe NIMBY - someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard

Translations

acronym [ˈækrənɪm] n → siglas fpl

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acronym [ˈækrənɪm] n → acronyme m

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acronym [ˈækrənɪm] n → Akronym nt