# How to Search with Full Text from Abbreviated Text

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-with-full-text-from-abbreviated-text/40228>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 27, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-with-full-text-from-abbreviated-text/40228 "2016-01-27T12:30:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![code\_blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ea924/32.png) [@code\_blue](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/code_blue)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-with-full-text-from-abbreviated-text/40228/1 "2016-01-27T12:30:05Z")

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Currently for Address we have some abbreviations like  
St for Street  
Ave for Avenue  
Rd for Road

How can we search with the full text i.e. Street, Avenue, Road when the data contains abbreviations?

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**Author:** ![tanguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tanguy/32/6030_2.png) [@tanguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanguy)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-with-full-text-from-abbreviated-text/40228/2 "2016-01-27T12:35:39Z")

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Hi,

You can use synonyms for that (see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/master/using-synonyms.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/master/using-synonyms.html) and [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/master/synonyms.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/master/synonyms.html)).

Tanguy

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-with-full-text-from-abbreviated-text/40228/3 "2017-07-05T23:21:07Z")

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