QUOTATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does quotation mean?
• QUOTATION (noun)
The noun QUOTATION has 4 senses:
1. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
2. a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
3. a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
4. the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
Familiarity information: QUOTATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• QUOTATION (noun)
Meaning:
A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
quotation; cite; mention; reference; acknowledgment; citation; credit
Context examples:
the student's essay failed to list several important citations / the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book / the article includes mention of similar clinical cases
Hypernyms ("quotation" is a kind of...):
annotation; notation; note (a comment or instruction (usually added))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quotation"):
photo credit (a note acknowledging the source of a published photograph)
cross-index; cross-reference (a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work)
Meaning:
A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
quotation; quote; citation
Hypernyms ("quotation" is a kind of...):
excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quotation"):
epigraph (a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing)
mimesis (the representation of another person's words in a speech)
misquotation; misquote (an incorrect quotation)
Meaning:
A statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quotation" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Meaning:
The practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation
Hypernyms ("quotation" is a kind of...):
pattern; practice (a customary way of operation or behavior)
