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1. An official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
   - commendation
    
2. (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)
    
3. A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
   "the student's essay failed to list several important citations";
   - cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation
    
4. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
   - quotation, quote
    
5. (law) a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding

1. Thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948

Derived forms: citations

Type of: accolade, annotation, award, excerpt, excerption, extract, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], laurels, notation, note, process, selection, speech act, summons, thoroughbred

Encyclopedia: Citation