recital
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3.6
- noun
- /rɪˈsaɪtəl/
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recital
- My daughter was having a ballet recital at the junior high school.
- piano recital
- solo recital
- give a recital
When I was younger, I was in in dance class, so we had dance recitals and I remember my mom would do my makeup.
- When I was younger, I was in in dance class, so we had dance recitals and I remember my mom would do my makeup.
- I mean, he came to my college graduation, birthday parties, recitals, like he would drive all the way to be a part of our family.
- Of course, you can drop whatever you're doing, but I'm just saying like you have a huge opportunity for the school of greatness, but it means you're going to miss a recital.
- No, but like that's I can't imagine how bad like that song for a tap dance recital.
- We listen to too much stupid Electro music or it's playing at a piano recital.
Examples
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Every spring she held a recital, and all the students performed.
Academic text (1998) -
Hey, I'm sorry I missed your dance recital.
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The goal was to be ready for a recital the first week of May.
Fiction book (1992) -
Well, the girls have an important piano recital in the morning.
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I want their piano recital to go well, even if I'm not there to hear it.
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Oh, and their upcoming music recital.
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The Saturday before the recital, I waited in front of our house by the mailbox.
Fiction book (1992) -
Judy's high school chamber choir will perform an art song recital in the fall.
Academic text (2011) -
Many piano teachers have group classes, computer keyboard opportunities, theory work, and recitals to offer these young students.
Academic text (2000) -
The girls have an important piano recital in the morning.
Synonyms
656
1.8
A live music performance for people to hear
539
2.7
A live show of a play, concert, or dance for an audience
4
3.2
A live show where musicians play music for an audience
Antonyms
How Public
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Recital comes from Latin recitare 'to read aloud' and is related to recite, but the word later came to mean a public show of music or dance by one person or a small group; that's why a musical or dance recital is a performance where people 'show' their skill to an audience.