cite

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymscitationacknowledgmentcreditreferencementionquotation

   Broadernote

   Narrowerphoto creditcross-reference

Other forms of cite

plural

cites·

past tense

cited·

present participle

citing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cite

What does cite mean?

cite means "make reference to". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cite?

cite has 1 syllable: cite. In IPA it is /ˈsaɪt/.

What is another word for cite?

Close synonyms include mention, advert, bring up, name, refer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cite a common word?

cite is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cite?

24 words rhyme with cite. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.