| Noun | 1. | citation - an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | |
| 2. | citation - (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)speech act - the use of language to perform some act jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" | |
| 3. | citation - a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"annotation, notation, note - a comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope" photo credit - a note acknowledging the source of a published photograph | |
| 4. | citation - a passage or expression that is quoted or citedexcerpt, extract, selection - a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" epigraph - a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing mimesis - the representation of another person's words in a speech | |
| 5. | citation - a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceedingsummons, process - 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 jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" | |
| 6. | Citation - thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948thoroughbred - a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares | |