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quote

Pronunciation: /kwəʊt/

The English word “quote” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
  2. A quotation mark.
  3. A summary of work to be done with a set price; a quotation.
  4. A price set and offered (by the potential seller) for a financial security or commodity; a quotation.

verb

  1. To repeat (the exact words of a person).
  2. To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.
  3. To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
  4. To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
  5. To observe, to take account of.

particle

  1. Used in speech to indicate the start of a quotation.

Etymology

From Middle English quoten, coten (“to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references”), from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre (“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…

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