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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun recitation has 4 senses
- recitation(n = noun.communication) Array - written matter that is recited from memory; Array is a kind of matter
- recitation(n = noun.communication) reading, recital - a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" is a kind of oral presentation, public speaking, speaking, speechmaking
- recitation(n = noun.act) class period, course session - a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study; Array is a part of class, course, course of instruction, course of study
- recitation(n = noun.act) drill, exercise, practice, practice session - systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect" is a kind of grooming, preparation, training
Derived form verb recite2
has particulars: declamation
Derived forms verb recite1, verb recite3
is a kind of session
has particulars: fire drill, manual, manual of arms, military drill, rehearsal, dry run, rehearsal, brushup, review, scrimmage, shadowboxing, target practice
CIDE DICTIONARY
recitation, n. [L. recitatio: cf. F. récitation. See Recite.].
- The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences. Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered. [1913 Webster]
- The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
recitation, n.
1 the act or an instance of reciting.
2 a thing recited.
1 the act or an instance of reciting.
2 a thing recited.
Etymology
OF recitation or L recitatio (as RECITE)
THESAURUS
recitation
address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, chalk talk, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, exposition, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, instruction, invective, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, monologue, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, object lesson, oration, pep talk, performance, peroration, philippic, pitch, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, set speech, set task, skull session, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory addressROGET THESAURUS
recitation
Speech
N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.
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