summary

English

Etymology

(Adjective) From Medieval Latin summarius, from Latin summa.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsʌməɹɪ/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: summery

Adjective

summary (comparative more summary, superlative most summary)

1. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form

   A summary review is in the appendix.

2. Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.

   They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.

3. (law) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.

   Summary justice is bad justice.

Translations

concise

• Catalan: sumari (ca)
• Czech: stručný (cs)

• Finnish: tiivistetty (fi), lyhyt (fi)
• German: zusammenfassend (de)

performed speedily

• Catalan: sumari (ca)
• Finnish: pika- (fi), summittainen (fi)

• Polish: doraźny (pl) m
• Spanish: apurado (es), a todo dar (es)

cutting the procedures of a normal trial

• Finnish: pika- (fi), summittainen (fi)

• Spanish: juizio apurado (es) m

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• Bulgarian: резюме (bg) (rezyume) n
• Italian: estratto (it) m, compendio (it) m, sommario (it) m
• Portuguese: resumo (pt), sumário (pt) m, compêndio (pt)
• Spanish: resumen (es) m, sumario (es) m
• Dutch: summier
• French: sommaire

Noun

Wikipedia summary (plural summaries)

1. An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

Synonyms

• upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)

Derived terms

• executive summary

Translations

condensed presentation

• Catalan: resum (ca) m, sumari (ca) m
• Chinese: 摘要 (zhāiyào)
• Czech: souhrn (cs) m, shrnutí (cs) n
• Danish: resume (da) n, resumé (da) n
• Dutch: samenvatting (nl) f, overzicht (nl) n, opsomming (nl) f
• Finnish: yhteenveto (fi), lyhennelmä (fi), tiivistelmä (fi)
• French: résumé (fr) m, sommaire (fr) m, récapitulation (fr) f, compte rendu (fr) m
• German: Zusammenfassung (de) f
• Greek: περίληψη (el) (perílipsi) f (perílipsi), σύνοψη (el) (sýnopsi) f (synopsi)
• Hebrew: תקציר
• Ido: rezumo (io)
• Irish: achoimre (ga) f, achoimriú (ga) m
• Italian: riassunto (it) m

• Norwegian: sammendrag (no) n, resumé (no) n
• Polish: streszczenie (pl) n, skrót (pl) m
• Portuguese: resumo m, sumário m
• Russian: итоги (ru) (itógi) m pl
• Scottish Gaelic: giorrachadh (gd) m, geàrr-chunntas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:

  Roman: sažétak (sh) m

• Spanish: resumen (es) m, sumario (es) m
• Swedish: sammanfattning (sv) c
• Turkish: özet (tr)
• Ukrainian: підсумок (uk) (pídsumok) m

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• Telugu: సారాంశము (saaraaMSamu)