quotation

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English

A quotation of French text.

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

Derived terms

• quotation mark
• RFQ (request for quotation)

Related terms

• attestation

Translations

fragment of a human expression

• Arabic: اِقْتِبَاس‏‎ m (iqtibās)
• Bulgarian: цитат (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
• German: Zitat (de) n
• Hebrew: צִטּוּט‏‎ (he) f (tsitut), מוּבָאָה‏‎ f (muvah), צִיטָטָה‏‎ f (tsitata)
• 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:

  Bokmål: sitat (no) n

  Nynorsk: sitat n

• 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

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

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

• Italian: preventivo (it) m
• Polish: wycena f
• Russian: предложе́ние (ru) n (predložénije) (цены́)
• Swedish: offert (sv) c
• Tagalog: saturing
• Turkish: geçerli fiyat