abridgments
n. C1 Advanced abridg·ments
n. shorter versions of a book or document that keep the main ideas but remove extra details. You use them when you want to read a long story quickly.
n. shortened versions of a text that retain the essential content while omitting less significant details. Often used in legal or academic contexts to summarize lengthy documents.
The teacher asked us to read the abridgments of the novel.
Lawyers often rely on abridgments of previous court cases to find relevant precedents without reading the entire original records.
While the original manuscript spans several thousand pages, the abridgments published by the university press provide a concise overview of the author's most significant arguments and historical findings.