English noun: excerption | |||
| 1. | excerption (communication) a passage selected from a larger work | ||
| Samples | He presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings. | ||
| Synonyms | excerpt, extract, selection | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | passage | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | analecta, analects, chrestomathy, citation, clipping, cut, cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting, quotation, quote, track | ||
| Instance hyponym | Haftarah, Haftorah, Haphtarah, Haphtorah | ||