recital
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4.3
- noun
- /rɪˈsaɪtəl/
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recitación
- I am excited to perform my poem at the school's recital next week.
- dance recital
- ballet recital
- poetry recital
Examples
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Now, for the recital, more feeling!
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You can't miss her recital.
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- I really have to practice my recital piece
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That is my recital piece.
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I was practicing for my recital.
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At the end of the first nine-week session, students presented a recital.
Academic text (1993) -
But when I was younger, I did singing lessons and we would have like singing recitals at the end of the year.
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lt's just my granddaughter's piano recital.
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After several hours of practicing, we had to give recitals, which were listened to attentively.
Fiction book (1993) -
I remembered the night of Tian's brilliant recital—we had been so lighthearted, so happy, walking arm in arm through the sparkling street.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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1.4
An event where someone speaks aloud from a poem or book to an audience
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5.3
Saying something memorized out loud as a performance
Antonyms
How Public
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Recital comes from Latin recitare 'to read aloud' and shares the root with recite, so a recital is a public moment when someone says a poem or speech aloud from memory.