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noun
A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: citation, cite, quote
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The act of quoting someone or something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: citation
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The act of setting a price.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A quota, a share.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: practice, pattern
noun
a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: quote, citation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
Narrower terms: epigraph, mimesis, misquotation, misquote
noun
a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: statement
noun
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: note, annotation, notation
Narrower terms: photo credit, cross-reference, cross-index
History
The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotātiō, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote + -ation.
Across languages
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
