quotation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the practice of quoting from books or plays etc

   Since they lack originality they must rely on quotation.

2. 2
   noun

   A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.

   "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of quoting someone or something.

   One of these preachers was a blacksmith, whose iron constitution had entirely given way, and the little strength that remained he exhausted in endless quotation of texts from the Bible.

4. 4
   noun

   A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.

   Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.

5. 5
   noun

   a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

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

8. 8
   noun

   The act of setting a price.

Etymology

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotātiō, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote + -ation.