quotation meaning
EN[-eɪʃən]US
WQuotation
- A quotation is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by (punctuated with) quotation marks.
- A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any other form of expression, especially parts of artistic works: elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition.
- NounPLquotationsSUF-ation
- A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
- "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
- The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
- Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.
- A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- quotations "HE YIFFED ME IN THE MURR HOLE!!!!" — [1] "Spam filtered AND slammed. Vixens yiffed." — [2]
- Quotation 1603-06: "Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?" — Macbeth: Ac.1 Sc3, Wm. Shakespeare.
- Quotation 1603-06: "Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day." — Macbeth: Ac.1 Sc3, Wm. Shakespeare.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of quotation in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary