recite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
To list or enumerate something.
To deliver a recitation.

verb

Alternative spelling of re-cite (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography).

/ɹɪˈsaɪt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recite.wav /ˌɹiˈsaɪt/

recite recites reciting recited

From Middle English reciten, from Old French reciter, from Latin recitō.

declaim go through spout tabulate

recit recitation

aforerecited forerecited misrecite recitable recital recitement unrecited

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