QUOTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quotation mean? 

• QUOTATION (noun)
  The noun QUOTATION has 4 senses:

1. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

2. a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

3. a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity

4. the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.

  Familiarity information: QUOTATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUOTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

acknowledgment; citation; cite; credit; mention; quotation; reference

Context example:

the article includes mention of similar clinical cases

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

annotation; notation; note (a comment or instruction (usually added))

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

photo credit (a note acknowledging the source of a published photograph)

cross-index; cross-reference (a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A passage or expression that is quoted or cited

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

citation; quotation; quote

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

excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)

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

epigraph (a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing)

mimesis (the representation of another person's words in a speech)

misquotation; misquote (an incorrect quotation)

Derivation:

quote (repeat a passage from)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A statement of the current market price of a security or commodity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Derivation:

quote (name the price of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The practice of quoting from books or plays etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation

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

pattern; practice (a customary way of operation or behavior)

Derivation:

quote (repeat a passage from)

 Context examples 

An extract or quotation from or reference to an authoritative source, e.g. a book or author, used, for example, to support an idea, theory, or argument.

(Citation, NCI Thesaurus)

Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

What does Doctor Watts say, he added, looking at me, and moving his head to the time of his quotation, Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here is a quotation from Eckermann’s Voodooism and the Negroid Religions:

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Three days, at white heat, completed his narrative; but when he had copied it carefully, in a large scrawl that was easy to read, he learned from a rhetoric he picked up in the library that there were such things as paragraphs and quotation marks.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

At last the fat man seemed to weary of it, for he set to work quietly upon his meal, while his opponent, as proud as the rooster who is left unchallenged upon the midden, crowed away in a last long burst of quotation and deduction.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings and quotations; but it was not possible, that when within reach of Captain Wentworth's conversation with either of the Miss Musgroves, she should not try to hear it; yet she caught little very remarkable.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Micawber was so very much struck by this happy rounding off with a quotation, that he indulged himself, and us, with a second reading of the sentence, under pretence of having lost his place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If I had such a memory as Benwick, I could bring you fifty quotations in a moment on my side the argument, and I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)