Excerpt - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈeksɜːrpt|
Brit.
|ˈeksɜːpt|
noun
- a passage selected from a larger work (syn: excerption, extract, selection)
he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings
verb
Extra examples
She read an excerpt from the play.
I've read only excerpts of Moby-Dick, never the whole book.
Today's reading is excerpted from the Bible.
An excerpt of the speech appeared in the Sunday paper.
I published an excerpt from "Road" (melling it with parts of "Visions of Neal").
Word forms
noun
singular: excerpt
plural: excerpts
singular: excerpt
plural: excerpts
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