Definition of "excerpt" []

• A passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document, or a film. (noun)
• To select or use (a passage or segment from a longer work). (verb-transitive)
• To select or use material from (a longer work). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "* % excerpt% - A text-only excerpt of the body content."
• "I love ancient myths … history was one of my favorite classes and I looked it up and heres in excerpt from the wiki article:"
• "The focus of this excerpt is the lack of freedom of blacks (non-whites in general, actually, as it also included Chinese, Filipinos, native Americans, people from the Indian subcontinent and others)."