Shorter
Shorter may refer to:
As a place name
- Shorter, Alabama, a town located in Macon County, Alabama, United States
As a surname
- 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
- The comparative form of short
- Shorter University, 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
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