Excerption (Noun)

Meaning

A passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings".

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Synonyms

• Selection
• Excerpt
• Extract

Hypernyms

• Passage

Hyponyms

• Analects
• Cutting
• Press Clipping
• Chrestomathy
• Citation
• Press Cutting
• Quotation
• Cut
• Clipping