quote
verb OPAL S
/kwəʊt/
/kwəʊt/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they quote | /kwəʊt/ /kwəʊt/ |
| he / she / it quotes | /kwəʊts/ /kwəʊts/ |
| past simple quoted | /ˈkwəʊtɪd/ /ˈkwəʊtɪd/ |
| past participle quoted | /ˈkwəʊtɪd/ /ˈkwəʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form quoting | /ˈkwəʊtɪŋ/ /ˈkwəʊtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to repeat the exact words that another person has said or written
- quote something to quote Shakespeare
- quote something from something He quoted a passage from the minister's speech.
- quote from something They quoted from the Bible.
- quote somebody/something in something Quote this reference number in all correspondence.
- He was widely quoted in the American media.
- The figures quoted in this article refer only to Britain.
- Jude is one of three people quoted in the story.
- quote somebody to quote an expert/an official/a source
- The minister claimed he had been selectively quoted.
- quote somebody as doing something The President was quoted in the press as saying that he disagreed with the decision.
- She said, and I quote, ‘Life is meaningless without love.’
- quote somebody on something ‘It will all be gone tomorrow.’ ‘Can I quote you on that?’
- Don't quote me on this (= this is not an official statement), but I think he is going to resign.
- quote + speech ‘The man who is tired of London is tired of life,’ he quoted.
Extra ExamplesTopics Literature and writingb1, Languageb1- She quotes extensively from the author's diaries.
- They said they were quoting from a recent report.
- The passage is quoted in full.
- He is wrongly quoted as saying ‘Play it again, Sam.’
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- at length
- extensively
- in full
- …
- as
- from
- [transitive] to mention an example of something to support what you are saying
- quote (somebody) something Can you quote me an instance of when this happened?
- quote something as something an example that is often quoted as evidence of mismanagement
Synonyms mentionmention- refer to somebody/something
- speak
- cite
- quote
- mention to write or speak about something/somebody, especially without giving much information:
- Nobody mentioned anything to me about it.
- refer to somebody/something (rather formal) to mention or speak about somebody/something:
- I promised not to refer to the matter again.
- speak to mention or describe somebody/something:
- Witnesses spoke of a great ball of flame.
- cite (formal) to mention something as a reason or an example, or in order to support what you are saying:
- He cited his heavy workload as the reason for his breakdown.
- quote to mention an example of something to support what you are saying:
- Can you quote me an instance of when this happened?
- to mention/refer to/speak of/cite/quote somebody/something as somebody/something
- to mention/refer to/cite/quote a(n) example/instance/case of something
- frequently/often mentioned/referred to/spoken of/cited/quoted
- the example mentioned/referred to/cited/quoted above/earlier/previously
Extra Examples- He quoted one case in which a person had died in a fire.
- the most widely quoted and influential study in this field
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- frequently
- often
- as
- on
- widely quoted
- [transitive, intransitive] to tell a customer how much money you will charge them for a job, service or product
- quote something The agent is quoting a guide price of €250 000.
- quote something for (doing) something The price they quoted for the kitchen was too high.
- quote somebody something A garage quoted him £80.
- quote somebody something for (doing) something They quoted us £300 for installing a shower unit.
- [transitive] quote something (at something) (finance) to give a market price for shares, gold or foreign money
- Yesterday the pound was quoted at $1.8285, unchanged from Monday.
- [transitive] quote something (finance) to give the prices for a business company’s shares on a stock exchange
- Several football clubs are now quoted on the Stock Exchange.
- publicly quoted companies
repeat exact words
give example
give price
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin quotare, from quot ‘how many’, or from medieval Latin quota. The original sense was ‘mark a book with numbers, or with marginal references’, later ‘give a reference by page or chapter’, hence ‘cite a text or person’ (late 16th cent.).
Idioms
quote (… unquote)
(also quote, unquote)
- (informal) used to show the beginning (and end) of a word, phrase, etc. that has been said or written by somebody else
- It was quote, ‘the hardest decision of my life’, unquote, and one that he lived to regret.
- now that the, quote, unquote, ‘real story’ has begun