English Dictionary
Definition of “quote”
quote (kwəʊt
)
Definitions
verb
- to recite a quotation (from a book, play, poem, etc), esp as a means of illustrating or supporting a statement
- (tr) to put quotation marks round (a word, phrase, etc)
- stock exchange to state (a current market price) of (a security or commodity)
exclamation
- an expression used parenthetically to indicate that the words that follow it form a quotation ⇒
the president said, quote, I shall not run for office in November, unquote
Word Origin
C14: from Medieval Latin quotāre to assign reference numbers to passages, from Latin quot how many
Synonyms
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=
repeat,
recite,
reproduce,
recall,
echo,
extract,
excerpt,
proclaim,
parrot,
paraphrase,
retell,
=
refer to,
cite,
give,
name,
detail,
relate,
mention,
instance,
specify,
spell out,
recount,
recollect,
make reference to
adduce,
Translations
- British English:
quote
A quote from a book, poem, or play is a sentence or phrase from it.kwəʊt NOUN
- Spanish:
cita
nf
- French:
citation
nf
- German:
Zitat
nnt
- Chinese: 引文 n
- Arabic: اِقْتِبَاس n
- Portuguese: cotação nf
- Russian: цитата nf
- Croatian: citat nm
- Czech: citát nm
- Danish: citat nnt
- Dutch: citaat nnt
- Finnish: lainaus n
- Greek: ατάκα nf
- Italian: citazione nf
- Japanese: 引用文 n
- Korean: 인용어구 n
- Norwegian: sitat nnt
- Polish: cytat nm
- Brazilian Portuguese: citação nf
- European Spanish:
cita
nf
- Swedish: citat nnt
- Thai: ข้อความอ้างอิง n
- Turkish: alıntı n
- Vietnamese: đoạn trích dẫn n
- British English:
quote
If you quote something, you repeat what someone has written or said. If you quote someone as saying something, you repeat what they have written or said.She quoted a line from the book. The reporter quoted from the letter.kwəʊt VERB She quoted a line from the book. The reporter quoted from the letter.
- Spanish:
citar
v
- French:
citer
vt
- German:
zitieren
v
- Chinese: 引用 v
- Arabic: يَقْتَبِسُ v
- Portuguese: citar v
- Russian: цитировать v
- Croatian: citirati v
- Czech: citovat v
- Danish: citere v
- Dutch: citeren v
- Finnish: siteerata v
- Greek: παραθέτω v
- Italian: citare v
- Japanese: 引用する v
- Korean: 인용하다 v
- Norwegian: sitere v
- Polish: zacytować v cytować
- Brazilian Portuguese: citar v
- European Spanish:
citar
v
- Swedish: citera v
- Thai: อ้างอิง v
- Turkish: alıntı yapmak v
- Vietnamese: trích dẫn v
Usage examples
Under `Remarks", Miss Grant had included a quote from the newspaper death notice: `A Baptist for thirty years.
Pickard, Nancy, No Body (1987)Features Agent FPDSAVILLS EDINBURGH (Residential) Tel: 0131 247 3720 Please quote Countrylife.
Country Life (2004)The work is scored for six instruments and begins with what sounds like a reverential quote from the mass.
Globe and Mail (2003)There were, to quote Diana," three people in this marriage", despite this, nobody sought to help her.
Liverpool Daily Post and Echo (2002)Besides, his next quote was triumphalism incarnate: `We are the biggest band in Britain of all time, ever,' he concluded.
John Harris, THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock (2003)
