quotation
/kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/ noun B2- 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.
- The act of quoting someone or something.
- 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.
- The act of setting a price.
Plural quotations
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“Sire,” replied the courtier, laughing, in order that he might seem to comprehend the quotation, “your majesty may be perfectly right in relying on the good feeling of France, but I fear I am not altogether wrong in dreading some desperate attempt.”
“It was his Cornelius Nepos that Master Edward was repeating when he referred to King Mithridates,” continued the count, “and you interrupted him in a quotation which proves that his tutor has by no means neglected him, for your son is really advanced for his years.”
Inside this modest structure, Murray and a small team of assistants meticulously sorted millions of quotation slips into alphabetical order.
It contained more than four hundred thousand defined words and relied on nearly two million illustrative quotations provided by the public.
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