quotation

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 7.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

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

2. noun The act of quoting someone or something.
3. noun A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.

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

4. noun The act of setting a price.
5. noun A quota, a share.

Similar words

quote reference mention credit citation quoting quotes cited phrase excerpt

Often followed by

from marks is of in on and mark above

Word family

quotations quote quoted quotes quoting