excerpt

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

extract

quotation

selection

take out

quote

passage

citation

cite

excerption

reproduce

exception

abridgment

select

piece

copy

transcribe

fragment

abstract

duplicate

part

extraction

grasp

grip

hold

lend

loan

offprint

paragraph

portion

press

purchase

🛍️

reading

recite

removal

section

sector

segment

spoon

🥄

stopping

summary

take

task force

truncation

trust

abridged form

excerpting

book of selections

printed separately

manual copying

choose

off-print

abridgement

approach

borrow

citing

clipping

clutch

clutches

constitute

cull

curtailment

cutback

detachment

detail

division

draw

elect

eliminate

excision

extracting

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛɡzɜ(ɹ)(p)t/

Etymology

From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”).