Antonyms for quotation
kwoʊˈteɪ ʃənquo·ta·tion

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1. quotationnoun

   Synonyms:
   quote, citation

2. quotationnoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   quote, citation

3. quotationnoun

   The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.

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

   Synonyms:
   quote, citation

Matched Categories

1. • Excerpt
   • Note
   • Practice
   • Statement

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotationnoun

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

   "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"

   Synonyms:
   extension, denotation, commendation, course credit, book of facts, character reference, credit rating, reference point, character, reference, mention, citation, honorable mention, deferred payment, acknowledgement, reference book, quote, acknowledgment, credit entry, recognition, computer address, consultation, address, source, cite, point of reference, credit, reference work

2. quotation, quote, citationnoun

   a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

   Synonyms:
   inverted comma, credit, quote, acknowledgment, mention, commendation, citation, reference, quotation mark, cite

3. quotationnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   quote, acknowledgment, mention, reference, credit, cite, citation

4. quotationnoun

   the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.

   "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"

   Synonyms:
   quote, acknowledgment, mention, reference, credit, cite, citation

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1. quotationnoun

   Synonyms:
   citation, excerpt

How to use quotation in a sentence?

1. Dorothy L. Sayers:

   A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

2. Arthur Miller:

   In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

3. Colonel William Prescott:

   Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

4. Samuel Johnson:

   Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

5. Benjamin Disraeli:

   When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

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