quotation

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English

Wikipedia

A quotation of French text.

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

quotation (plural quotations)

1. A fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature, but also sentences from a speech, scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, etc. may be quoted.

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

2. The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.

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

Synonyms

• quote
• citation

Derived terms

• quotation mark
• RFQ (request for quotation)

Related terms

• attestation

Translations

fragment of a human expression

• Arabic: اقتباس (ar) (iqtibās) m
• Bulgarian: цитат (bg) (citát) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 引用 (cmn) (yǐnyòng), 引語 (cmn), 引语 (cmn) (yǐnyǔ)

• Czech: citát (cs) m
• Dutch: citaat (nl) n
• Finnish: sitaatti (fi) n, lainaus (fi)
• French: citation (fr) f
• German: Zitat (de) n
• Hebrew: צִטּוּט (he) (tsitut) f, מוּבָאָה (he) (muvah) f, צִיטָטָה (he) (tsitata) f
• Hungarian: idézet (hu)
• Icelandic: tilvitnun (is) f
• Italian: citazione (it) f

• Japanese: 引用 (ja) (いんよう, in'yō)
• Korean: 인용 (ko) (in-yong) (引用 (ko))
• Norwegian: sitat (no) n
• Polish: cytat (pl) m
• Portuguese: citação (pt) f
• Romanian: citat (ro) n
• Russian: цитата (ru) (citáta) f
• Scottish Gaelic: às-aithris (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цитат (sh) m

  Roman: citat (sh) m

• Spanish: cita (es) f, citación (es) f
• Swedish: citat (sv) n

act of naming a price; price that has been quoted

• Czech: kótace (cs) f
• Finnish: tarjous (fi)
• French: devis (fr) m, cotation (fr) f
• German: Angebot (de) n, Preisangebot (de) n

• Italian: preventivo (it) m
• Polish: wycena (pl) f
• Russian: предложение (ru) (predložénije) n (цены́)