Shorter has several meanings:
- as a place name
- Shorter, Alabama, a town located in Macon County, Alabama, United States
- as a personal name
- Alan Shorter, Jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
- Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918), Irish poet
- Eli Sims Shorter (1823-1879), US Democrat
- Frank Shorter (born 1947), American athlete
- Jim Shorter, American football player
- John Gill Shorter (1818–1872), American politician
- Stuart Shorter, disabled homeless man from Cambridge, England, about whom the biography "Stuart: A Life Backwards" was written
- 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
Famous quotes containing the word shorter:
“It’s babe feminism—we’re young, we’re fun, we do what we want in bed—and it has a shorter shelf life than the feminism of sisterhood. I’ve been a babe, and I’ve been a sister. Sister lasts longer.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Pigeons on the grass alas.
Pigeons on the grass alas.
Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow
grass Pigeons large pigeons on the shorter longer yellow grass
alas pigeons on the grass.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.”
—French Proverb. Quoted in Dictionary of Similes, ed. Frank J. Wilstach (1916)