quotation

CEFRB1

/kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Words taken from a text or speech and repeated exactly.

  2. 02

    noun

    A stated price for a job or service.

Examples

  • "Love your neighbour as yourself" is a quotation from the Bible.

  • It seems to me better without the quotation marks.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.

  2. The act of quoting someone or something.

  3. A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.

More examples

In context

  • The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable.

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

  • Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotātiō, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote + -ation.