Meanings
verbexcerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted)
present singular third person excerpts · participle present excerpting · participle past excerpted · past excerpted
- transitiveTo select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars
1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey
Synonyms & antonyms
verbtake out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic نبذة – مقتطفات من
- نبذة – مقتطفات منa clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Bulgarian откъс, извадка
- откъс (otkăs)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- извадка (izvadka)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Catalan extracte
- extractea clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Chinese Mandarin 摘录, 節錄 /节录
- 摘录 (zhāilù)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- 節錄 /节录 (jiélù)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- 摘录 (zhāilù)to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
Czech výňatek
- výňateka clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Danish uddrag, excerpt
- uddraga clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- excerpta clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Dutch fragment, passage
- fragmenta clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- passagea clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Finnish poiminto, ote
- poimintoa clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- otea clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- katkelmaa clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- lainatato select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
- kopioidato select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
French extrait, passage
- extraita clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- passagea clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- extraireto select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
German Auszug, Exzerpt
- Auszuga clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- Exzerpta clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- exzerpierento select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
Greek απόσπασμα
- απόσπασμα (apóspasma)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Hebrew קֶטַע, מוּבָאָה
- קֶטַע (qéta')a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- מוּבָאָה (muva'a)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Hungarian kivonat, szemelvény
- kivonata clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- szemelvénya clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Icelandic brot, hluti
- brota clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- hlutia clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Indonesian cuplikan, mencuplik
- cuplikana clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- mencuplikto select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
Italian estratto, estrarre
- estrattoa clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- estrarreto select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
Japanese 抜粋, 抄録
- 抜粋 (bassui)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- 抄録 (shōroku)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Latin excerptum
- excerptuma clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Māori wāhanga
- wāhangaa clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Norwegian utdrag
- utdraga clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Polish fragment, urywek
- fragmenta clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- uryweka clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Portuguese trecho, passagem
- trechoa clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- passagema clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- excertoa clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Russian отры́вок, вы́держка
- отры́вок (otrývok)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- вы́держка (výderžka)a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- де́лать выдержки (délatʹ)to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
- подбира́ть цитаты (podbirátʹ)to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
Spanish excerpta, excerta
- excerptaa clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
- excertaa clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Swedish utdrag
- utdraga clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
Cite this entry
APA
excerpt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excerpt
MLA
“excerpt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excerpt. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “excerpt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excerpt.
Source: excerpt on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.