recite

Speech parts

1. recite - Noun

2. recite - Verb

Meaning

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.

To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.

To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.

To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.

To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.

A recital.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

declaim tell relate recount narrate echo speke number state list report say read perform describe
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Antonyms

bellow use distance read block ask
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Hypernyms

echo name perform identify execute repeat

Hyponyms

name list say count relate scan

Phrases with the word

recite quickly to recite

Derivatives

recited reciting

Anagrams

cerite receit tierce certie

Examples

She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered Source: Internet

The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug Source: Internet

Tell what happened Source: Internet

The father told a story to his child Source: Internet

she recited a poem Source: Internet

The pupil recited his lesson for the day Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

recitativelike recitatively recitativo recite quickly recited off recited out