~ (from sth) a short piece of writing, music, film, etc. taken from a longer whole:
Read the following excerpt from one of Milton's poems. * They only played a short excerpt.
excerpt verb [VN] ~ sth (from sth):
The document was excerpted from an unidentified FBI file.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for excerpt is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is excerpt a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, excerpt is tagged as noun.
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