Definitions for Quotationkwoʊˈteɪ ʃən

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Princeton's WordNet




  2. quotation, quote, citation(noun)

    a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

  3. quotation(noun)

    a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity

  4. quotation(noun)

    the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.

    "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"


  1. quotation(Noun)

    A fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature, but also sentences from a speech, scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, etc. may be quoted.

    "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.

  2. quotation(Noun)

    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.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Quotation(noun)

    the act of quoting or citing

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  3. Quotation(noun)


  4. Quotation(noun)

    quota; share

  5. Quotation(noun)


  6. Origin: [From Quote.]


  1. Quotation

    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 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.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Quotation' in Nouns Frequency: #2792


  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Quotation in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Quotation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Jorge Luis Borges:

    Life itself is a quotation.

  2. Vikrant Parsai:

    If you tell quotation to a fool, it has to be explained to him.

  3. Dorothy L. Sayers:

    A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

  4. Ambrose Bierce:


  5. Samuel Johnson:


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