Usually means: A short extract from text.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Excerpt:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. excerpt: Merriam-Webster
  2. excerpt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excerpt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. excerpt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. excerpt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Excerpt, excerpt: Wordnik
  7. excerpt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. excerpt: Wiktionary
  9. excerpt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. excerpt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. excerpt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Excerpt, excerpt: Dictionary.com
  13. excerpt (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. excerpt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Excerpt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Excerpt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. excerpt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. excerpt: Rhymezone
  19. excerpt, excerpt (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. excerpt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. excerpt: FreeDictionary.org
  22. excerpt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. excerpt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. excerpt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excerpt: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. excerpt: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excerpt: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excerpt: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (excerpt)

▸ noun:  A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

Similar:
take out, extract, selection, clip, sample, audio clip, cutting, pull quote, clip show, snipe, more...

Opposite:
include, incorporate, comprise

Types:
excerpt from a book, excerpt from a poem, excerpt from a song, more...

Phrases:
book excerpt, diary excerpt, tv interview excerpt, musical excerpt, movie excerpt, more...

Adjectives:
brief, short, first, above, second, next, long, small, lengthy, last, final
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Similar:
take out, extract, selection, clip, sample, audio clip, cutting, pull quote, clip show, snipe, more...

Opposite:
include, incorporate, comprise

Types:
excerpt from a book, excerpt from a poem, excerpt from a song, more...

Phrases:
book excerpt, diary excerpt, tv interview excerpt, musical excerpt, movie excerpt, more...

Adjectives:
brief, short, first, above, second, next, long, small, lengthy, last, final



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