# callout

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #70,530

## Definitions
1. An outgoing telephone call.
2. An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
3. A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
4. An invitation to fight.
5. A request for people to join or take part.
6. A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
7. An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
8. The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.
9. A form of verbal abuse with the intention of making the victim feel guilty.
10. The invocation of an external third-party component.

## Etymology
Deverbal from call out.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/callout