Definitions for quote

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Spelling: [kwoht]

IPA: /kwoʊt/

Quote is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in quote (eoqtu).

Definitions for quote

noun

1. a quotation.
2. quotation mark.

Idioms

1. quote unquote, so called; so to speak; as it were:

verb (used with object)

1. to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
2. to repeat words from (a book, author, etc.).
3. to use a brief excerpt from:
4. to cite, offer, or bring forward as evidence or support.
5. to enclose (words) within quotation marks.
6. Commerce. to state (a price). to state the current price of.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a quotation or quotations, as from a book or author.
2. (used by a speaker to indicate the beginning of a quotation. )

Origin of quote

1350-1400; 1880-85 for def 9; Middle English coten, quoten (Old French coter) Medieval Latin quotāre to divide into chapters and verses, derivative of Latin quot how many

Examples for quote

Alfred, at your time of life, are you beginning to quote Gussie?

The quote is apocryphal, but that has not changed its significance for Army football players.

The quote appears on the bronze plaque the players touch before they take the field for home games.

And he's likely to talk the most execrable slang, or to quote Browning.

“Telling employees to stick to authorized legal boundaries is a good thing,” he said Wednesday when asked about the quote.

Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

If you quote the first one, I'll quote the second, and then we shan't clash.

We quote for the sake of one line chiefly, but the whole stanza is pertinent.

There are other similar passages which I need not now quote.

That quote has been misattributed to him since it first appeared in 1881, when Ben would have been 175 years old.