CITATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Citation mean? 

• CITATION (noun)
  The noun CITATION has 6 senses:

1. an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement

2. (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)

3. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

4. a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

5. a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding

6. thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948

  Familiarity information: CITATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

citation; commendation

Hypernyms ("citation" is a kind of...):

accolade; award; honor; honour; laurels (a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction)

Derivation:

cite (commend)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("citation" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

cite (repeat a passage from)

cite (make reference to)

cite (refer to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

acknowledgment; citation; cite; credit; mention; quotation; reference

Context example:

the article includes mention of similar clinical cases

Hypernyms ("citation" is a kind of...):

annotation; notation; note (a comment or instruction (usually added))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "citation"):

photo credit (a note acknowledging the source of a published photograph)

cross-index; cross-reference (a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work)

Derivation:

cite (advance evidence for)

cite (repeat a passage from)

cite (make reference to)

cite (refer to)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A passage or expression that is quoted or cited

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

citation; quotation; quote

Hypernyms ("citation" is a kind of...):

excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "citation"):

epigraph (a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing)

mimesis (the representation of another person's words in a speech)

misquotation; misquote (an incorrect quotation)

Derivation:

cite (advance evidence for)

cite (repeat a passage from)

cite (make reference to)

cite (refer to)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("citation" is a kind of...):

process; summons (a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

cite (call in an official matter, such as to attend court)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Instance hypernyms:

thoroughbred (a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares)

 Context examples 

Martin frowned inwardly at the citation of that worthy gentleman, and went on: I put stamps on all my manuscripts and started them off to the editors again.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Often used as a citation when information is passed from one researcher to another, but is not published.

(Personal Communication, NCI Thesaurus)

Each structure is linked to the rest of the NCBI databases, including sequences, bibliographic citations, taxonomic classifications, and sequence and structure neighbors.

(Molecular Modeling Database, NCI Thesaurus)