°A fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from
literature, but also sentences from a
speech, scenes from a
movie, elements of a
painting, etc. may be quoted.
""Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine."
°The act of naming a
price; the price that has been quoted.
synonyms:
quote, citation