RECITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recite mean? 

• RECITE (verb)
  The verb RECITE has 5 senses:

1. recite in elocution

2. repeat aloud from memory

3. render verbally

4. narrate or give a detailed account of

5. specify individually

  Familiarity information: RECITE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECITE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recite    ... he / she / it recites   
Past simple: recited   
Past participle: recited   
-ing form: reciting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recite in elocution

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

declaim; recite

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

do; execute; perform (carry out or perform an action)

"Recite" entails doing...:

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recite"):

elocute (declaim in an elocutionary manner)

perorate (deliver an oration in grandiloquent style)

scan (read metrically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recitation (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Repeat aloud from memory

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The pupil recited his lesson for the day

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

echo; repeat (to say again or imitate)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recite"):

spell; spell out (orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of)

say (recite or repeat a fixed text)

rattle down; rattle off; reel off; roll off; spiel off (recite volubly or extravagantly)

count (name or recite the numbers in ascending order)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recitation (written matter that is recited from memory)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Render verbally

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

recite; retell

Context example:

retell a story

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recital; recitation (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Narrate or give a detailed account of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

narrate; recite; recount; tell

Context example:

The father told a story to his child

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recite"):

relate (give an account of)

crack (tell spontaneously)

yarn (tell or spin a yarn)

rhapsodise; rhapsodize (recite a rhapsody)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence example:

The parents recite a French poem to the children

Derivation:

recital (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)

recital (a detailed account or description of something)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Specify individually

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

enumerate; itemise; itemize; recite

Context example:

The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

identify; name (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recite"):

list; name (give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Klosh-Kwan recited the information brought by Bim and Bawn, and at its close said in a stern voice: "So explanation is wanted, O Keesh, of thy manner of hunting. Is there witchcraft in it?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Bent on showing that he was not offended, he made himself as agreeable as possible, wound cotton for Meg, recited poetry to please Jo, shook down cones for Beth, and helped Amy with her ferns, proving himself a fit person to belong to the 'Busy Bee Society'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Nobody is fonder of the exercise of talent in young people, or promotes it more, than my father, and for anything of the acting, spouting, reciting kind, I think he has always a decided taste.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Possibly I recited with a certain joyous lilt which was my own, for—his memory was good, and at a second rendering, very often the first, he made a quatrain his own—he recited the same lines and invested them with an unrest and passionate revolt that was well-nigh convincing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)