quotation
quotation Lexical Profile
quotation Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A group of words taken verbatim from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.
"She began her essay with a memorable quotation from Virginia Woolf."
A formal statement setting out the estimated cost for a particular job, service, or product, or the current market price of a security or commodity.
"Before hiring the contractor, we requested written quotations from three different companies."
The action or practice of repeating or citing words from a text or speech.
"The professor discouraged excessive quotation of secondary sources in the research paper."
Word Nuance & Usage
In formal and academic style guides, 'quotation' is traditionally preferred as the noun and 'quote' as the verb, though 'quote' is widely accepted as a noun in everyday speech and writing.
• Rhymes for quotation
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 15th century from Medieval Latin quotatio ('a numbering of chapters and verses'), from quotare ('to mark with numbers for reference'), ultimately from Latin quot ('how many').