quotation

Noun

Meaning

The act of quoting or citing.

That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.

The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.

Quota; share.

A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

quote citation reference selection passage credit mention extract cite excerpt acknowledgment levy line example value
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Antonyms

original word act whole avoid revenue
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Hypernyms

practice notation note pattern selection extract

Hyponyms

epigraph cross-reference mimesis misquote cross-index misquotation

Phrases with the word

current quotation quotation noun quotation marker receiving quotation request for quotation angle quotation mark

Examples

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Samuel Johnson

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the hungry. Jewish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

quotaism quotaless quotalike quotation dash quotation mark quotation marker