quotation
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2.6
- noun
- /kwəˈteɪʃən/
- It's a book of quotations.
- a direct quotation
- quotation marks
- quotations from other sources
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Watch on YouTubeAnd each of these chapter headings begins with a quotation from Marcus Aurelius.
- And each of these chapter headings begins with a quotation from Marcus Aurelius.
- And this little quotation is by a musician.
- And this is a quotation from President Lowell.
- And it was at that time that I came across a quotation from Teddy Roosevelt.
- So here's another quotation from Antoine Fev.
- Let me close by pointing you to three quotations which for me epitomized the course.
- And so a lot of rich ideas there in in that quotation, I would say.
- OK, actually, he didn't say that last part, that the quotation should have ended like, like up here.
- But I think this anonymous, what turned out to be Karl Rove quotation that I showed you.
- You're seeing something that looks, feels like a quotation, but you never know if if it is forged or not.
- And if you look at anything from Klaus Schwab's quotations, George Soros's quotations, it is to degrade the nation state.
- Some comments that's here in quotations from taken from the story.
- It is definitely because currently the review all the quotation list is by my team.
Examples
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And this is a quotation from President Lowell.
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There's a lovely quotation from Thurgood Marshall.
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And so a lot of rich ideas there in in that quotation, I would say.
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My favorite quotation from you.
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But the language of the report, especially in this quotation, does raise questions.
Academic text (2017) -
This morning during your office appointment, I referred to a quotation, remember?
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And I just want to read you this quotation from Robinson.
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I stopped near the front door to read a Lincoln quotation on a plaque on the building.
Fiction book (1992) -
And when that happens, we know from the quotation I read earlier from Hannah Aaron, we know where that leads.
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In her essay, she included a powerful quotation from Martin Luther King Jr. to support her argument.
Synonyms
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A short passage from a book or speech that someone repeats
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5.1
A note showing where information comes from, like a book or article
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4.6
To take a short line from a text and show it separately to get attention
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A section of text quoted from another source and set apart by indenting
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3.0
The exact words someone said or wrote shown in quotation marks
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Repeating the exact words someone said or thought, usually in quote marks
A short part taken from a longer text for reading or study
Compounds
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Small signs in writing used to show the exact words someone said or a short title like a song
How Formal
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Morphology
Etymology
Quotation comes from an old root quot- meaning 'how many', and it is the same root behind the word quote. Long ago writers used numbers to mark exact lines, so a quotation came to mean the exact 'words' taken from someone else or the act of repeating them.