2. Noun. Quotation marks. ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of quote) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quotes
1. quote [v] - See also: quote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quotes
Literary usage of Quotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Clement of Alexandria (Strom., Ill, xiii) speaks of the four Gospels that have
been transmitted, and quotes over three hundred passages from the Gospel of ..."
2. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"The Diet of Poland ; a Satire, 1705. Quarto.—Of this Poem I have never feen but
one line, which the Author quotes ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"The author also quotes a ease from 1 Peters' CR, which directly negatives the
doctrine, and a case from 4 Hall's Law Journal, 462, which must have been ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"But he adds, '• Dryden seems to understand it otherwise ; " and quotes Fierce
Boreas drove against his flying sails, And rent the sheets. ..."