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citation
A	noun
	1	Citation
			thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚mammal ╚placental; placental mammal; eutherian; eutherian mammal ╚ungulate; hoofed mammal ╚odd-toed ungulate; perissodactyl; perissodactyl mammal ╚equine; equid ╚horse; Equus caballus ╚racehorse; race horse; bangtail ╚thoroughbred ╚Citation
	2	citation
			a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚written communication; written language ╚writing; written material; piece of writing ╚document; written document; papers ╚legal document; legal instrument; official document; instrument ╚writ; judicial writ ╚summons; process ╚citation
	3	quotation, quote, citation
			a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚written communication; written language ╚writing; written material; piece of writing ╚section; subdivision ╚passage ╚excerpt; extract; selection ╚quotation, quote, citation ╚misquotation ╚mimesis ╚epigraph
	4	citation, commendation
			an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚signal; signaling; sign ╚symbol ╚award; accolade; honor; honour; laurels ╚citation, commendation
	5	citation, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation
			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
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message; content; subject matter; substance ╚statement ╚comment; commentary ╚note; annotation; notation ╚citation, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation ╚cross-reference; cross-index ╚photo credit
	6	citation
			(law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚speech act ╚citation

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