refrain
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3.5
- noun
- /rɪˈfreɪn/
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- The singer paused after each verse, allowing the audience to join in on the refrain.
- a familiar refrain
- a common refrain
- the refrain of the song
Yes, I know the familiar refrain, and we'll make it here.
- Yes, I know the familiar refrain, and we'll make it here.
- And the common refrain is not a positive response.
- It's constantly this, this, this refrain in the book.
- And so smoke em while you got em is, you know, the refrain.
- I guess I should conclude, and maybe the best way is to to use an old academic refrain, that more research needs to be done.
- Numerous people I have worked with, talked with, gotten emails from have all repeated the same refrain.
- I think it's also interesting to think of them as both dreams and songs and the musical qualities of refrain and reprise that we hear in them.
- Another of the refrains often heard, but not from the same side, is that Gaza is like a concentration camp.
- Irregardless of the the common refrain that's used to support these decisions.
- Well, there is we we have an affectionate kind of refrain that we have every time.
- But it was so exciting to work for Showtime on this because I never once heard this refrain that I've heard throughout my career, which is.
- Well, one of the refrain in your work is we need less school, which of course makes you a heretic.
Examples
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The desire to strengthen women's voices on the 'inside' was a common refrain in the interviews and focus groups.
Academic text (2011) -
In the chorus of the song, everyone sang the familiar refrain together.
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And the common refrain is not a positive response.
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How you want something to feel is a really, really regular refrain in my head.
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Yes, I know the familiar refrain, and we'll make it here.
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Their most popular refrain at present is, "Food can be as effective as bullets."
Fiction book (1996) -
"We had no choice; we had to stay" was the refrain that defined the participant world.
Academic text (1990) -
They said, you know, this common refrain was that music was like blue jeans, and you wouldn't steal blue jeans, would you?
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Editorial-page editor Cynthia Tucker echoed a similar refrain in a column that appeared the following day.
Academic text (2008) -
During the performance, the crowd eagerly awaited the catchy refrain they all loved.
Synonyms
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2.0
The part of a song that repeats and people sing together
57
3.0
A short repeated phrase a group says or sings together
How Repetitive
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word refrain as a noun is easy to remember: think of re- 'again' and of a line that 'comes back' in a song. So, a refrain is the part that repeats after each verse.