Excerpt and Summary

Excerpt

Excerpt noun - A part taken from a longer work.

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Summary and excerpt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Summary" instead a noun "Excerpt".

Nearby Words: excerpted, excerpting, excerption

Summary noun - A short statement of the main points.

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Excerpt and summary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Excerpt" instead a noun "Summary".

good	good excerpt	good summary
full	full excerpt	full summary
brief	brief excerpt	brief summary
short	short excerpt	short summary
Other adjectives: original, small, actual, little, lengthy.

And Man Grew Proud: The beginning of Volume Two has an excerpt from the historical volumes of one Nainso Ziska II, esq., giving a brief summary of the events of the last novel.

Source: Webcomic / Dreamkeepers
In Dreamkeepers, The beginning of Volume Two and Three has an excerpt from the historical volumes of one Nainso Ziska II, esq., giving a brief summary of the events of the last novel.

Source: And Man Grew Proud
A common variation on this is to imply that the tiny portion that the player gets to read is merely an excerpt, or a summary of everything relevant you managed to glean from it.

Source: Pamphlet Shelf

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Summary and Excerpt. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/excerpt/summary

Excerpt & Summary. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/excerpt/summary>.

Summary or Excerpt. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/excerpt/summary.

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