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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
quotation
/kwoʊˈteɪʃən/
noun
words that a person has said or written in a play, book or movie
- “The full stop must be put outside the quotation marks.”Tatoeba
- “Please put the full stop inside the quotation marks.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)