How to pronounce quote
American English pronunciation
KWOHT
- IPA
- /ˈkwoʊt/
- Syllables
- KWOHT (1 syllable)
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What quote means
Most people know quote in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A price given for a job before the work is done
In a sentence: The painter gave us a quote of two hundred dollars to paint the whole fence.
Where it comes from: It comes through French from the Latin word quotus, meaning which number, from quot, how many. It first meant to mark a book with numbers, and the meaning of naming a price, first seen in 1866, goes back to that idea of numbers.
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