cite
//saɪt//
Forms
- present (v1)
- cite
- past (v2)
- cited
- past participle (v3)
- cited
- present participle
- citing
- 3rd person singular
- cites
- Plural
- cites
Definitions
1.To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
2.To mention; to make mention of.
- Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.
3.To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
4.To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
1.A citation.(informal)
- We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2020
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Synonyms
Etymology
From Old French citer, from Latin citare (“to cause to move, excite, summon”), frequentative of ciēre (“to rouse, excite, call”).
Sense 4 is the original one.