Quotation

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.1.2 Translations 1.2 See also

English

Noun

quotation (quotations)

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

Synonyms

• quote

Translations

• Arabic:qawl
• Bosnian: citat m
• Bulgarian: цитат m
• Dutch: citaat n
• Finnish: sitaatti n
• French: citation f
• German: Zitat n
• Hebrew: צִטּוּט, מוּבָאָה, צִיטָטָה
• Spanish: cita
• Romanian: citat n
• Polish: cytat m

See also

• attestation
• citation
• quote
• Wikipedia article on quotations

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