Definitions for excerpts

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excerpts ex·cerpt

Spelling: [noun ek-surpt; verb ik-surpt, Excerpts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in excerpts (ceeprstx).

Definitions for excerpts

noun

1. a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.

verb (used with object)

1. to take or select (a passage) from a book, film, or the like; extract.
2. to take or select passages from (a book, film, or the like); abridge by choosing representative sections.

Origin of excerpts

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin excerptus (past participle of excerpere to pick out, pluck out), equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + -cerp- (combining form of carp

Examples for excerpts

The letter from which the excerpt is taken was written Feb. 13, 1895.

We should not now combine a Norse saga with an excerpt from a novel by George Meredith.

Mark the adjectives in this excerpt and use them in sentences of your own.

In an excerpt from 'What We Won,' the story of Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Grenfell and Hunt date the Gospel, from which it is an excerpt, about 200.

In an excerpt from his autobiography, he describes the reaction.

At that same conference in D.C. where she met Saa, Gurira performed an excerpt from Eclipsed.

In an excerpt from his ebook The Dudes Abide, Jeff Bridges and John Goodman meet the Dude and Walter for the first time.

Here, an excerpt from a new book that details her path to revenge and its unintended aftermath.

Was then this "excerpt charter" a forgery, or a genuine document?