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blockquote

noun
/ˈblɑk.kwoʊt/US/ˈblɒk.kwəʊt/UK

Etymology

From the name of an HTML element for this purpose, from block + quote.

  1. derived from quotus — “which, what number (in sequence)”
  2. derived from quotāre — “to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”
  3. derived from coter
  4. inherited from quoten
  5. compounded as blockquote — “block + quote”

Definitions

  1. a lengthy quotation that is formatted so as to be set off from the main text on a…

    a lengthy quotation that is formatted so as to be set off from the main text on a webpage, as by italicization and indentation

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blockquote. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA