diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheck.java
index 80e4138e7..006ed45ba 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheck.java
@@ -244,17 +244,18 @@ public class AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheck extends Check {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Check that variable definition in interface definition.
+     * Check that variable definition in interface or @interface definition.
      * @param variableDefAst variable definition.
      * @return true if variable definition(variableDefAst) is in interface
-     *     definition.
+     *     or @interface definition.
      */
     private static boolean isInterfaceDeclaration(DetailAST variableDefAst) {
         boolean result = false;
         final DetailAST astBlock = variableDefAst.getParent();
         final DetailAST astParent2 = astBlock.getParent();
 
-        if (astParent2.getType() == TokenTypes.INTERFACE_DEF) {
+        if (astParent2.getType() == TokenTypes.INTERFACE_DEF
+                || astParent2.getType() == TokenTypes.ANNOTATION_DEF) {
             result = true;
         }
         return result;
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheckTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheckTest.java
index 2847ed726..ff0d3898f 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheckTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheckTest.java
@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@ public class AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheckTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport {
             "88: " + getWarningMessage("FIleNameFormatException", expectedCapitalCount),
             "90: " + getWarningMessage("serialVersionUID", expectedCapitalCount),
             "98: " + getWarningMessage("userID", expectedCapitalCount),
+            "107: " + getWarningMessage("VALUE", expectedCapitalCount),
+            "111: " + getWarningMessage("VALUE", expectedCapitalCount),
+            "115: " + getWarningMessage("VALUE", expectedCapitalCount),
+            "119: " + getWarningMessage("VALUE", expectedCapitalCount),
         };
         verify(checkConfig,
                 getPath("InputAbbreviationAsWordInTypeName.java"), expected);
diff --git a/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/InputAbbreviationAsWordInTypeName.java b/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/InputAbbreviationAsWordInTypeName.java
index 6dd9a7e14..2e6633ca3 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/InputAbbreviationAsWordInTypeName.java
+++ b/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/InputAbbreviationAsWordInTypeName.java
@@ -102,3 +102,19 @@ class StateX {
         return this.scaleX;
     }
 }
+
+@interface Annotation1 {
+    String VALUE = "value"; // in @interface this is final/static
+}
+
+@interface Annotation2 {
+    static String VALUE = "value"; // in @interface this is final/static
+}
+
+@interface Annotation3 {
+    final String VALUE = "value"; // in @interface this is final/static
+}
+
+@interface Annotation4 {
+    final static String VALUE = "value"; // in @interface this is final/static
+}