excerpt

1. 1.

   take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

   Synonymsextracttake out

   Broaderchoose

Other forms of excerpt

plural

excerpts·

past tense

excerpted·

present participle

excerpting·

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 excerpt

What does excerpt mean?

excerpt means "a passage selected from a larger work". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excerpt?

excerpt has 2 syllables: ex-cerpt. The stress falls on "ex". In IPA it is /ˈɛksɚpt/.

What is another word for excerpt?

Close synonyms include excerption, extract, selection, extract, take out. 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 excerpt a common word?

excerpt 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.