Home › Words › E › excerptexcerpt/ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t/excerpt means A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.excerpt is pronounced /ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t/.EtymologyFrom Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”).nounA clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.verbTo select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.e.g.“out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars” — 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.excerpted 74% match — Consisting of excerpts. vs excerpt →snippet 71% match — A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample. vs excerpt →excerpting 70% match — The act of taking an excerpt. vs excerpt →subclip 64% match — A video or audio clip making up part of a longer clip. vs excerpt →excerptive 62% match — That excerpts or selects. vs excerpt →clipsheet 61% match — A sheet of news, features, and similar material distributed to newspaper publishers for convenient inclusion in their publications. vs excerpt →abstract 60% match — An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. vs excerpt →snippage 57% match — something that has been snipped away vs excerpt →