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

Translations

extrait

Auszug

excerto

Exzerpt

estratto

απόσπασμα

fragmento

puiser

extracto

trecho

extraire

sélection

brano

passage

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”).