shorthand

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: short=hand

CIDE DICTIONARY

shorthand, n. 

 A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

shorthand, n.
1 (often attrib.) a method of rapid writing in abbreviations and symbols esp. for taking dictation.
2 an abbreviated or symbolic mode of expression.

Idiom

shorthand typist Brit. a typist qualified to take and transcribe shorthand.

THESAURUS

shorthand

Speedwriting, arrowhead, autograph, autographic, brachygraphy, calligraphic, character, chirographic, contraction, cuneiform, cursive, demotic character, determinative, engrossed, flowing, grammalogue, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, holograph, holographic, ideogram, ideograph, in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, kana, katakana, logogram, logograph, longhand, manuscript, ogham, on paper, penciled, penned, phonetic, phonetic symbol, phonography, pictogram, pictograph, printed, radical, rune, running, scriptorial, scriptural, stenographic, stenography, stylographic, tachygraphic, tachygraphy, wedge, word letter, written

ROGET THESAURUS

shorthand

Writing

N writing, chirography, stelography, cerography, penmanship, craftmanship, quill driving, typewriting, writing, manuscript, MS, literae scriptae, these presents, stroke of the pen, dash of the pen, coupe de plume, line, headline, pen and ink, letter, uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic, contraction, Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari, script, shorthand, stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy, secret writing, writing in cipher, cryptography, stenography, phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography, copy, transcript, rescript, rough copy, fair copy, handwriting, signature, sign manual, autograph, monograph, holograph, hand, fist, calligraphy, good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand, cacography, griffonage, barbouillage, bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand, scribble, pattes de mouche, ill-formed letters, pothooks and hangers, stationery, pen, quill, goose quill, pencil, style, paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table, blackboard, ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well, typewriter, transcription, inscription, superscription, graphology, composition, authorship, cacoethes scribendi, graphoidea, graphomania, phrenoia, writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver, stenographer, typewriter, typist, writer for the press, writing, written, in writing, in black and white, under one's hand, uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical, currente calamo, pen in hand, audacter et sincere, le style est l'homme meme, nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill, scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons, that mighty instrument of little men, the pen became a clarion.