Quotation definition: something that is quoted; a passage quoted from a book, speech, etc..

a phrase or short piece of writing taken from a longer work of literature, poetry, etc. or what someone else has said: At the beginning of the book there's a quotation from Abraham Lincoln.

The meaning of QUOTATION is something that is quoted; especially : a passage referred to, repeated, or adduced. How to use quotation in a sentence.

QUOTATION meaning: 1 : something that a person says or writes that is repeated or used by someone else in another piece of writing or a speech; 2 : the act of using quotations in a piece of writing or a speech

1. The act of quoting. 2. A passage quoted. 3. An explicit reference or allusion in an artistic work to a passage or element from another, usually well-known work: "Direct quotations from other paintings are fairly sparse" (Robert Hughes).