EXCERPT
Dictionary entry overview: What does excerpt mean?
• EXCERPT (noun)
The noun EXCERPT has 1 sense:
1. a passage selected from a larger work
Familiarity information: EXCERPT used as a noun is very rare.
• EXCERPT (verb)
The verb EXCERPT has 1 sense:
1. take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Familiarity information: EXCERPT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EXCERPT (noun)
Meaning:
A passage selected from a larger work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
excerpt; excerption; extract; selection
Context example:
he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings
Hypernyms ("excerpt" is a kind of...):
passage (a section of text; particularly a section of medium length)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excerpt"):
chrestomathy (a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language)
analecta; analects (a collection of excerpts from a literary work)
clipping; cutting; newspaper clipping; press clipping; press cutting (an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine)
cut; track (a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc)
citation; quotation; quote (a passage or expression that is quoted or cited)
Instance hyponyms:
Haftarah; Haftorah; Haphtarah; Haphtorah (a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah)
• EXCERPT (verb)
Meaning:
Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
excerpt; extract; take out
Hypernyms (to "excerpt" is one way to...):
choose; pick out; select; take (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives)
Sentence frames:
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