Shorter

Shorter

Shorter has several meanings:

;as a placename
* Shorter, Alabama, a town located in Macon County, Alabama, United States

;as a personal name
* Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918), Irish poet
* Frank Shorter (born 1947), American athlete
* John Gill Shorter (1818–1872), American politician
* Wayne Shorter (born 1933), American jazz musician

;other uses
* Shorter College, an American four year, co-educational college located in Rome, Georgia, United States
* Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a two-volume, scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary
* Westminster Shorter Catechism or "Shorter Catechism", a set of three Christian religious texts dating from the 1640s
* shorter (slang), an internet trend in which a person condenses a person's arguments to one sentence, generally as a caricature of that person's ideas, for humorous effect.


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  • Shorter — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Alan Shorter (1932–1987), US amerikanischer Musiker (Trompete und Flügelhorn) und Komponist des Free Jazz Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918), irische Dichterin Edward Shorter (* 1941), kanadischer… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Shorter — Shorter, AL U.S. town in Alabama Population (2000): 355 Housing Units (2000): 133 Land area (2000): 1.722627 sq. miles (4.461584 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.722627 sq. miles (4.461584 sq.… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Shorter, AL — U.S. town in Alabama Population (2000): 355 Housing Units (2000): 133 Land area (2000): 1.722627 sq. miles (4.461584 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.722627 sq. miles (4.461584 sq. km) FIPS code …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Shorter —   [ ʃɔːtə], Wayne, amerikanischer Tenor und Sopransaxophonist, * Newark (New Jersey) 25. 8. 1933; spielte mit A. Blakey (1959 63), M. Davis (1964 70), der Gruppe Weather Report (1970 86) sowie eigenen Gruppen; von J. Coltrane beeinflusster… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Shorter — Wayne Shorter Wayne Shorter Nom Wayne Shorter Naissance 25 août 1933 Pays d’origine …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Shorter — This interesting surname of Anglo Saxon origin derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century Sceort meaning short plus the comparative suffix er , a nickname used to distinguish between the shorter of two brothers. The creation of surname from a… …   Surnames reference

  • Shorter — Short Short, a. [Compar. {Shorter}; superl. {Shortest}.] [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. {Shirt}.] 1. Not long; having brief length or linear… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shorter — adj. Shorter is used with these nouns: ↑version …   Collocations dictionary

  • Shorter (Alabama) — Shorter Pueblo de los Estados Unidos …   Wikipedia Español

  • Shorter College (Arkansas) — Shorter College is a two year, private, historically black liberal arts college located in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It was founded in 1886 (originally as Bethel University ) by the African Methodist Episcopal Church.References*… …   Wikipedia

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