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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun excerpt has 1 sense

• excerpt(n = noun.communication) excerption, extract, selection - a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
is a kind of passage
has particulars: chrestomathy, analecta, analects, clipping, cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting, cut, track, citation, quotation, quote, haftarah, haftorah, haphtarah, haphtorah
Derived form verb excerpt₁

Verb excerpt has 1 sense

• excerpt(v = verb.cognition) extract, take out - take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy; Array
is one way to choose, pick out, select, take
Derived form noun excerpt₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

excerpt

choose out, citation, cite, cull, cull out, decide between, excerption, extract, extraction, glean, handpick, make a selection, passage, pick, pick out, quotation, quote, select, selected passage, selection, sift, single out, take, winnow

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excerpt

Compendium

N compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression, compendious, synoptic, analectic, abrege, abridged, variorum, in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words, it lies in a nutshell.

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