cite

CEFRC1

/saɪt/

verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To mention a source or example as support.

  2. 02

    verb

    To officially praise someone for an achievement or brave action.

Examples

  • To cite usage against rule, in a constructed language, is insane.

  • You must cite all your sources in the bibliography of the paper.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To mention; to make mention of.

  2. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.

  3. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.

More examples

In context

  • She would cite from the Bible.

  • We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.

  • Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.

Quick test

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Origin

verb

From Old French citer, from Latin citare (“to cause to move, excite, summon”), frequentative of ciēre (“to rouse, excite, call”). Sense 4 is the original one.