excerpt
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of excerpt
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
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noun
- A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
verb
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(transitive)To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
“out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”).
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