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excerpt

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As a noun, excerpt means a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition. As a verb, it means select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

Meanings of excerpt

3 meanings

noun

  1. A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.

verb

  1. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

  2. Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

    Similar: extract, take out

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: a passage selected from a larger work
excerptionextractselection
verb: take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
extracttake out

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