EXCERPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excerption mean? 

• EXCERPTION (noun)
  The noun EXCERPTION has 1 sense:

1. a passage selected from a larger work

  Familiarity information: EXCERPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCERPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A passage selected from a larger work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

excerpt; excerption; extract; selection

Context example:

he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings

Hypernyms ("excerption" is a kind of...):

passage (a section of text; particularly a section of medium length)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excerption"):

chrestomathy (a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language)

analecta; analects (a collection of excerpts from a literary work)

clipping; cutting; newspaper clipping; press clipping; press cutting (an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine)

cut; track (a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc)

citation; quotation; quote (a passage or expression that is quoted or cited)

Instance hyponyms:

Haftarah; Haftorah; Haphtarah; Haphtorah (a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah)