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Showing words for EXCERPTS using the English dictionary
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Definitions for Excerpts
[1] a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
[2] to take or select (a passage) from a book, film, or the like; extract.
[3] to take or select passages from (a book, film, or the like); abridge by choosing representative sections.
[4] a part or passage taken from a book, speech, play, etc, and considered on its own; extract
[5] (tr) to take (a part or passage) from a book, speech, play, etc
Words related to Excerpts
election, fragment, passage, portion, piece, extract, quotation, cull, glean, saying, notation, quote, section, note, part, choose, pick, cite, select, pericope
Words nearby Excerpts
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Origin of Excerpts
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin excerptus (past participle of excerpere to pick out, pluck out), equivalent to ex- ex-1 + -cerp- (combining form of carpere to pluck) + -tus past participle suffix
Other words from Excerpts
ex·cerpt·er , ex·cerp·tor , noun
ex·cerpt·i·ble , adjective
ex·cerp·tion , noun
un·ex·cerpt·ed , adjective
Word origin for Excerpts
C17: from Latin excerptum, literally: (something) picked out, from excerpere to select, from carpere to pluck
Synonyms for Excerpts
extract, fragment, passage, piece, portion, quotation, selection, notation, note, part, quote, saying, section, pericope