English-Spanish translations for quotation

• citación
• cita
  He aquí hay dos breves citas de él. Here are two short quotations from him.
  Lo que publicaron como cita literal era correcto. What they put in as a quotation was correct.
  Fin de la cita del artículo 146. End of quotation from Article 146.
• cotización
• presupuesto

Definition of quotation

• A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from or , but also scenes from a , elements of a , a passage of music, etc., may be quoted
• A price that has been quoted for buying or selling
• The act of setting a price

Synonyms

• quote

Examples

• Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine
• Lets get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether its worth doing

Related words

• quotation mark
• quotation marks
• quotation dash
• request for quotation
• familiar quotation
• closing quotation mark
• opening quotation mark
• put quotation marks around
• admit for quotation