quote
/kwəʊt/UK[k(ʰ)wəʊt]
quote noun: a statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
Noun
quote (plural quotes)
- A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
- She loved reading quotes of famous people.
- A quotation mark.
- A summary of work to be done with a set price; a quotation.
- After going over the hefty quotes, the board decided it was cheaper to have the project executed by its own staff.
- A price set and offered (by the potential seller) for a financial security or commodity; a quotation.
Verb
quote (third-person singular simple present quotes, present participle quoting, simple past and past participle quoted)
- To repeat (the exact words of a person).
- The writer quoted the president's speech.
- Synonyms:
- cite
- To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.
- Can you believe they quoted me $5,000?
- To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
- To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
- To observe, to take account of.
- But must our moderne Critticks envious eye
Seeme thus to quote some grosse deformity?1598, John Marston, “Satyre IV”, in The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image, and Certaine Satyres (poem) - That hath made him mad.
I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
I had not quoted him. I fear'd he did but trifle …1600, Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 2, scene 1
- But must our moderne Critticks envious eye
Particle
quote
quote meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
quote in Hindi
- a statement attributed to someone
- उद्धरण uddharaṇ
quote in Tamil
- விலைப்புள்ளி, விலைவிபரம், விலைக்குறிப்பு, விலைமடல், விலைத்தாள், விலையேடு
quote in Urdu
- a statement attributed to someone
- اِقْتِباس iqtibās
quote in Bengali
- quote, quotation
- দর dor
More languagesFewer languages
- quote in Malayalam
- ഉദ്ധരണി uddharaṇi
- quote in Kannada
- ಉದ್ಧರಿಸು ಯಾ ಉಲ್ಲೇಖಿಸು, ಎತ್ತಿಹೇಳು ಯಾ ಎತ್ತಿಬರೆ, ಉದಾಹರಿಸು, ಹೇಳು
- quote in Sanskrit
- धरति dhárati
- quote in Pashto
- اقتباس eqtebās
- quote in Arabic
- اِقْتِبَاس iqtibās, اِسْتِشْهَاد istišhād, عَلَامَة اِقْتِبَاس, عَلَامَة تَنْصِيص
- quote in Malay
- petikan, memetik kata
- quote in Indonesian
- kutipan, sitasi, sitat, nukilan
- quote in Persian
- نقلقول کردن naql-e-qowl kardan, واگفتن vāgoftan
- quote in Thai
- การอ้างอิง gaan-âang-ing, อัญพจน์ an-yá-pót, อ้างอิง âang-ing
- quote in Vietnamese
- đoạn trích dẫn, trích dẫn, trích
- quote in Myanmar
- ချီးကျူးလွှာ hkyi:kyu:hlwa, အာဂမယုတ္တိ aga.ma.yutti., ကိုးကား kui:ka:
Examples of quote in a sentence
- Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
- When quoting others, take care not to run afoul of copyright rules.
- Maybe you should ask your quote unquote friend what happened to the money.
Synonyms of quote
Antonyms
Forms of quote
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | quotes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | quotes |
| present participle | quoting |
| past participle | quoted |
| past | quoted |
Origin of quote
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 out exact words” (since 1680); the business sense “to state the price of a commodity” (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of “quotation,” is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below.
Words formed from quote
- quote unquote
- air quote
- angle quote
- baquote
- blind quote
- blockquote
- corner quote
- curly quote
- direct quote
- double angle quote
- double-quote
- double quote
- duckfoot quote
- end of quote
- finger quote
- Fregean quote
- midquote
- money quote
- pull quote
- pull-quote
- Quine quote
- quotebook
- quote-driven
- quotee
- quoteless
- quote mark
- quotemaster
- quote mining
- quote on quote
- quote retweet
- quote-seeker
- quote stuffing
- quote tweet
- quote-tweet
- quoteworthy
- Quotron
- rent-a-quote
- scare quote
- semiquote
- semi-quote
- shudder quote
- single angle quote
- single quote
- sneer quote
- stepquote
- straight quote
- backquote
- bequote
- disquote
- don't quote me
- enquote
- misquote
- outquote
- overquote
- quasiquote
- quota
- quotability
- quotable
- quotation
- requote
Phrases with quote
Words that rhyme with quote
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- oat
- connote
- groat
- remote
- scrote
- tote
- bote
- capote
- denote
- devote
- dote
- mote
- smote
- solar boat
- undercoat
- cote
- demote
- gloat
- pote
- refloat
- rote
- undernote
- wrote
- yote
- blót
- confidence vote
- disease boat
- end of quote
- end quote
- entrecôte
- flote
- frote
- ignote
- isot
- lote
- loth
- misquote
- moth
- phot
- recoat
- rewrote
- shoat
- stoat
- swagger coat
- troat
- two hundred fifty-sixth note
- underquote
- underwrote
Questions about quote
- What does quote mean?
- Quote means a statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
- What is quote in Hindi?
- Quote in Hindi is उद्धरण (uddharaṇ). See Quote meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is quote?
- Quote can be a noun, a verb or a particle.
- How do you pronounce quote?
- Quote is pronounced /kwəʊt/.
- What is the plural of quote?
- The plural of quote is quotes.
Words near quote in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quote (page history and authors); quote (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); দর (Bengali) (page history and authors); quote (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); धरति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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