QUOTE
What does "QUOTE" mean?
To repeat or copy out words said or written by someone else, crediting the source.
Meanings
- To repeat exactly the words of another person or text. She quoted Shakespeare to make her point about ambition.
- To state the price at which something is offered. The plumber quoted three hundred dollars to fix the leak.
- A passage repeated from a speech or text; a quotation. He opened his speech with a quote about courage. informal
- A stated estimate of cost. We got three quotes before choosing a contractor.
Did you know?
- The word once meant to number a book's chapters, not to repeat its words: medieval 'quotare' was about marking marginal reference numbers, and 'citing someone' is a much later meaning.
Word origin
From Medieval Latin 'quotare', meaning to mark a book with reference numbers, from Latin 'quot' (how many); the sense of citing another's words developed later.
Remember it
QUOTE and noTE both end in -OTE: a quote is the note you lift word-for-word from someone else.
A little poem
We borrow a dead man's perfect line-
and for a breath his thought feels mine.
couplet
Wordplay
- The contractor quoted me a famous proverb about patience, then quoted me four thousand dollars to learn it.
What it teaches
To quote well is to admit someone said it better - and borrowing their words is its own kind of honesty.
Quick facts
What does QUOTE mean?
To repeat or copy out words said or written by someone else, crediting the source.
Is QUOTE a valid word?
Yes — QUOTE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is QUOTE?
QUOTE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does QUOTE come from?
From Medieval Latin 'quotare', meaning to mark a book with reference numbers, from Latin 'quot' (how many); the sense of citing another's words developed later.
What can QUOTE teach us?
To quote well is to admit someone said it better - and borrowing their words is its own kind of honesty.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.