To note down; set down in writing; hence, in general, to note; mark; observe.To adduce from some author or speaker; cite, as a passage from some author or a saying of some speaker; name, repeat, or adduce as the utterance of some other person, or by way of authority or illustration; also, to cite the words of: as, to quote a passage from Homer; to quote Shakspere or one of his plays; to quote chapter and verse.In writing or printing, to inclose within quotation-marks; distinguish as a quotation or as quoted matter by marking: as, the dialogue in old books is not quoted.In com., to name, as the price of stocks, produce, etc.; name the current price of.To cite the words of another; make a quotation.n. A note upon an author.n. A quotation, or the marking of a quotation.n. A quotation-mark: usually in the plural.n. A quotient.