quotation

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English

A quotation of French text.

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Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

   "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

• (fragment of human expression): quote, citation

Coordinate terms

• attestation

Derived terms

• disquotation
• indirect quotation
• logical quotation
• misquotation
• overquotation
• quasiquotation
• quotational
• quotationally
• quotation dash
• quotationist
• quotationless
• quotation mark
• quotation mark
• requotation
• RFQ
• underquotation

 

Translations

fragment of a human expression

• Arabic: اِقْتِبَاس‎ m (iqtibās), اِسْتِشْهَاد‎ m (istišhād)
• Belarusian: цыта́та f (cytáta)
• Bulgarian: цита́т (bg) m (citát)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: citát (cs) m
• Danish: citat (da) n
• Dutch: citaat (nl) n
• Finnish: sitaatti (fi) n, lainaus (fi)
• French: citation (fr) f
• Georgian: ციტატა (ciṭaṭa)
• German: Zitat (de) n
• Greek: παράθεμα (el) n (paráthema)
• Hebrew: צִטּוּט‎ (he) f (tsitut), מוּבָאָה‎ f (muvah), צִיטָטָה‎ f (tsitata)
• Hungarian: idézet (hu), idézés (hu)
• Icelandic: tilvitnun (is) f
• Indonesian: kutipan (id)
• Italian: citazione (it) f
• Japanese: 引用 (ja) (いんよう, in'yō)
• Kazakh: дәйексөз (kk) (däyeksöz)
• Korean: 인용 (ko) (inyong) (引用 (ko))

• Macedonian: цитат m (citat)
• Malay: petikan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sitat (no) n

  Nynorsk: sitat n

• Persian: گفتاورد‎ (fa) (goftāvard)
• Polish: cytat (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: citação (pt) f
• Romanian: citat (ro) n
• Russian: цита́та (ru) f (citáta)
• Scottish Gaelic: às-aithris f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цитат m

  Roman: citat (sh) m

• Slovak: citát (sk) m
• Slovene: citat (sl) m
• Spanish: cita (es) f, citación (es) f
• Swedish: citat (sv) n
• Thai: อัญพจน์
• Turkish: alıntı (tr)
• Ukrainian: цита́та (uk) f (cytáta)

act of naming a price; price that has been quoted

• Czech: kótace f
• Danish: citation c, citering c, citering c
• Dutch: offerte (nl) c
• Finnish: tarjous (fi)
• French: devis (fr) m, cotation (fr) f
• German: Angebot (de) n, Preisangebot n
• Hungarian: (price quoted): árajánlat (hu), (act of naming a price): árajánlattétel, (current rate): árfolyam (hu)
• Italian: preventivo (it) m

• Japanese: 見積り (みつもり, mitsumori)
• Korean: 견적 (ko) (gyeonjeok)
• Polish: wycena f
• Russian: расце́нка (ru) f (rascénka), расце́нивание (ru) n (rascénivanije) (сто́имости)
• Spanish: presupuesto (es) m
• Swedish: offert (sv) c
• Tagalog: saturing
• Turkish: geçerli fiyat