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quotes

English

Noun

quotes

  1. plural of quote
  2. Quotation marks.
    Put his statement in quotes.

Verb

quotes

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quote

Anagrams

  • toques

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quotation

For Wiktionary's use of quotations, see Wiktionary:Quotations

English

Etymology

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotatio, from Latin quot?re, 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.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kwo??te???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

quotation (countable and uncountable, plural quotations)

  1. A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but also scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
    Synonyms: quote, citation
  2. A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.
  3. The act of setting a price.
  4. (obsolete) A quota, a share.

Synonyms

  • (price): quote

Coordinate terms

  • attestation

Hyponyms

  • (price): bid, ask, offer

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • quotation at OneLook Dictionary Search

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