excerpt

Meaning of excerpt

noun
  1. a short extract from a film, broadcast, or piece of music or writing.
    she read out excerpts from an article in the Times
verb
  1. take (a short extract) from a text.
    the notes are excerpted from his forthcoming biography

mid 16th century (as a verb): from Latin excerpt- ‘plucked out’, from the verb excerpere, from ex- ‘out of’ + carpere ‘to pluck’.

Information about excerpt

  • The plural form of excerpt is: excerpts.
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Hyphenation of excerpt

ex-cerpt

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • excerpt is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

excerpt synonyms

Meaning excerption:

excerption, extract, selection

Meaning extract:

extract

Meaning an amount or section which, when combined with others, makes up the whole of something:

part

Meaning any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up:

section

Meaning a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole:

piece

Meaning a part of a whole:

portion

Meaning an isolated or incomplete part of something:

fragment

Meaning a small piece or brief extract:

snippet

Meaning a flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place:

clip

Meaning a small piece, part, or quantity of something:

bit

Meaning the action or skill of reading:

reading

Meaning a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work:

citation

Meaning a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker:

quotation

Meaning a quotation from a text or speech:

quote

Meaning a long, narrow mark or band:

line

Meaning a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering:

paragraph

Meaning a short extract from a book or other printed material:

passage

Meaning the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred:

scene

Meaning writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme:

verse

Meaning a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse:

stanza

Meaning one of the sections into which certain long poems are divided:

canto

Meaning a citation:

cite

Meaning an extract from a text, especially a passage from the Bible:

pericope

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Words that rhyme with excerpt

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