Quotation
Source
Source noun - Something mentioned in a text as providing related and especially supporting information.
Usage example: the professor asked the students to have at least five different sources for their papers
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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His reaction to Travis demonstrating he actually knows the source of a quotation says otherwise.
Source: Film / If... - A chapter of Runaways has Nico go into a church and quote the Bible to a priest, who immediately assumes that she is a New Age goth until she reveals the source of her quotation.
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Sanderson likes doing this with his fantasy works - at the beginning of each chapter is a quotation form an in-universe source.
Source: Epigraph
Cite this Source
Source and Quotation. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/quotation/source
Quotation & Source. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/quotation/source>.
Source or Quotation. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/quotation/source.
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