quotation

Other forms of quotation

plural

quotations·

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 quotation

What does quotation mean?

quotation means "a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quotation?

quotation has 3 syllables: quo-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /kwoʊˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for quotation?

Close synonyms include citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference. 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 quotation a common word?

quotation 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 quotation?

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