While the average size of a mattress used to be 6 inches, maybe 8 inches if it was plush, now innerspring mattresses routinely clock in at 12 - 14 inches-some even more.
Another word for original. adjective. Preceding all others in time: earliest, first, initial, maiden, pioneer, primary, prime, primordial. See start. Arising from or going to the root or source: basal, basic, foundational, fundamental, primary, radical, underlying.
Abbreviation is a relatively old word and has been used since the 1400s. It is the noun form of the word abbreviate from the Late Latin abbreviÄtus meaning âshortened.â Initialism arose at the end of the 1800s, combining initial with the suffix -ism, which forms nouns from verbs like baptism. Acronym is relatively new.