direct quotation

1. 1.

   a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'")

   Synonymsdirect discourse

   Broaderreport

Questions about direct quotation

What does direct quotation mean?

direct quotation means "a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'")".

What is another word for direct quotation?

Close synonyms include direct discourse. 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 direct quotation a common word?

direct quotation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.