- (rather formal) (also rather informal quote)[countable] a group of words or a short piece of writing taken from a book, play, speech, etc. and repeated because it is interesting or useful
- a dictionary of quotations
- Two short quotations will illustrate my point.
- quotation from something The book began with a quotation from Goethe.
- a direct quotation from a recent speech by the president
Extra ExamplesTopics Literature and writingb1- It's a quotation from a poem by Keats.
- My quotation is taken from ‘Hamlet’.
- Where does that quotation come from?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- famous
- memorable
- direct
- …
- take
- attribute
- cite
- …
- come from something
- marks
- quotation from
- [uncountable] the act of repeating something interesting or useful that another person has written or said
- The writer illustrates his point by quotation from a number of sources.
- [countable] (rather formal) (also rather informal quote)a statement of how much money a particular piece of work will cost synonym estimate
- You need to get a written quotation before they start work.
- We’ll give you a free quotation for replacing your windows.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- written
- free
- detailed
- …
- give (somebody)
- provide (somebody with)
- supply (somebody with)
- …
- quotation for
- [countable] (finance) a statement of the current value of goods or shares
- the latest quotations from the Stock Exchange
- It was the first football club to have a full stock market quotation.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a marginal reference to a passage of text): from medieval Latin quotatio(n-), from the verb quotare, from quot ‘how many’, or from medieval Latin quota.
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