citation

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
noun (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)
noun a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

From Middle English citacioun, from Old French citation, from Latin citātiō. By surface analysis, cite + -ation.

This is no superfluous citation of testimony. — Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters, John Earle
"Do not the above citations clearly prove inequality? — Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
282 note[2]; citations of anti-Americanism in Times, i. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams

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