Quote Definition

kwōt
quoted, quotes, quoting
verb
quoted, quotes, quoting
To repeat or copy (words from a source such as a book), usually with acknowledgment of the source.
Quoted lines from Shakespeare in his lecture.
American Heritage
To reproduce or repeat (a passage from a book, a statement, etc.)
Webster's New World
To reproduce or repeat a passage from or statement of.
To quote Chaucer.
Webster's New World
To refer to as authority or an example; cite.
Webster's New World
To make a quotation, as from a book or author.
Webster's New World
noun
quotes
Webster's New World
A quotation.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
Used by a speaker to indicate the beginning of a direct quotation.
“He paused and said, quote, I don't care, unquote.”
American Heritage
A dictum; a saying.
American Heritage
interjection
I shall quote.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Quote

Noun

Singular:
quote
Plural:
quotes

Origin of Quote

  • Recorded since 1387 “to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references", from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotare (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters"), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number (in sequence)"), from quot (“how many") and related to quis (“who"). The sense developed via “to give as a reference, to cite as an authority" to “to copy out exact words" (since 1680); the business sense “to state the price of a commodity" (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of “quotation," is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English coten to mark a book with numbers or marginal references from Old French coter from Medieval Latin quotāre to number chapters from Latin quotus of what number from quot how many kwo- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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