1 [C] words or lines taken from a book or a speech
SYNQUOTATION
2 [C] an official statement about sth special that sb has done, especially about acts of courage in a war:
a citation for bravery
3 [U] (formal) an act of citing or being cited:
Space does not permit the citation of the examples.
4 [C] (AmE) = SUMMONS:
The judge issued a contempt citation against the woman for violating a previous court order.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for citation is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is citation a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, citation is tagged as noun.
Does citation appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — citation appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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