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Definition: Recital |
RecitalNoun1. An account describing incidents or events; "a farfetched narrative"; "after dinner he told the children stories of his adventures". 2. Performance of music or dance especially by soloists. 3. A public instance of reciting or repeating something prepared; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems". 4. A detailed statement giving facts and figures; "his wife gave a recital of his infidelities". 5. A detailed account or description of something; "he was forced to listen to a recital of his many shortcomings". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "recital" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Note: Recital \Re*cit"al\, noun. [From Recite.]. (references) |
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Computing | Recital dBASE-like language and DBMS from Recital Corporation. Versions include Vax VMS. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonyms: RecitalSynonyms: narration (n), narrative (n), reading (n), recitation (n), story (n), tale (n), yarn (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Description | Delineation; (representation); sketch; monograph; minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Recital |
| English words defined with "recital": A writ of account, advert, attend ♦ Diegesis ♦ give ear ♦ hang, Historiette ♦ litany ♦ Misrecital ♦ pay attention, pay heed ♦ Reading of a bill, Recountment. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "recital": Recountment. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Recital" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (recital), Portuguese (recital), Romanian (recital), Serbo-Croatian (recital), Spanish (recital). |
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Movie/TV Titles | TV Recital Hall (1951) The Recital (2003) Recital în gradina cu pitici (1987) | |
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 | To all inquiries Lola replied, Mr. Simpkins is taking me to an organ recital, and won a scream of mirth. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | What every husband knows. Man away from home over Sunday stops in at musical recital ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Portrait of Martha Graham and Bertram Ross, faces touching, in "Visionary recital". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Art Song" by Paige Foster Commentary: "Music for a recital, with rehearsal notes." |
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Civil Liberties | Ghana | This is a Christian service and includes the recital of The Lord's Prayer, a Bible reading, and a blessing. (references) |
Canada | In the province of Saskatchewan, during the 2000-01 academic year the Saskatoon school board implemented a new policy called "School Opening Exercises: Connections to Curricula and Celebrations," replacing its prior policy requiring children to recite (or remain silent during the recital of) the Lord's Prayer. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Recital" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Recital" is used about 217 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 217 | 20,530 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "recital": concert recital ♦ recital of fact ♦ song recital. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "recital": recital-rigid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "recital"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrëfim (account, confession, narrative, Rede, relation, shrift, story, tale), recitim (declamation, intonation, recitation), radhitje e fakteve, tregim (denotation, denotement, directing, indication, narration, narrative, novelette, pointing, production, recitation, Rede, relation, story, tale), përshkrim (commentary, delineation, depiction, description, portrait, portraiture, presentment, profile, write up), deklamim (declamation, rant, recitation). (various references) | |
Arabic | قصة (account, anecdote, fiction, narration, narrative, novel, report, story, tale, yarn), حفلة موسيقية يحيها عازف فرد, حفلة موسيقية فردية, تلاوة (reading, recitation), سرد (dress rehearsal, enumerate, enumeration, narrative, recitation, recite, record, recount, rehearsal, relation, retail), عزف موسيقي منفرد, عرض (array, bid, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, feature, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, lineup, mount, offer, offering, overture, pageant, parade, predispose, present, presentation, presenting, produce, proffer, propound, retrace, review, set, set out, setting, show, state, statement, subject, submit, surrey, symptom, trot out, widen, width), إلقاء كلمة (recitation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рецитал, разказване (narration, recitation), разказ (account, narration, narrative, relation, short story, story), изреждане (rehearsal), изложение на факти. (various references) | |
Chinese | 吟诵. (various references) | |
Czech | recitál, vypravování, koncert sólisty. (various references) | |
Danish | udførelse, betragtning. (various references) | |
Dutch | uitvoering van muziek of zang, overweging (consideration, deliberation). (various references) | |
Farsi | تک نوازی (Solo), ازبرخوانی (Recitation), رسیتال . (various references) | |
Finnish | konsertti (concert). (various references) | |
French | récitation (reading, recitation, repetition), récital, récit (recitation, record, relation), narration, considérant, compte rendu (progress report, record, report), audition. (various references) | |
German | Vortrag (account, account carried forward, amount brought forward, balance carried forward, lecture, performance, play, reading, recitation, record, rendering, report, speech, talk, utterance), Aufführung (behaviour, conduct, deportment, game, list, listing, performance, performing, presentation, show, showing, staging). (various references) | |
Greek | ρεσιτάλ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | הקראה (reading, recitation), רסיטל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | elmondás (account, narration, relation, telling), elbeszélés (account, narration, narrative, novel, relation, short story, story), szólóhangverseny, szólóest, beszámoló (account, coverage, narrative, oral, report, statement, talk). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pertunjukan (exposition, performance, reciprocate). (various references) | |
Italian | concerto (concert, concerto). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 音楽会 (concert), 発表会 , 吟誦 (chant, recitation), 吟唱 (chant, recitation), リアルタイム処理 (liaison, Likud, liqueur, liquid, liquor, real politics, real price, real time processing, recall, reclining seat, recommendation, reconstruction, recorder, recover, recovery, recovery shot, recreation, recruit, recruit fashion, recruiter, recurrent, recurrent neural network, recursion, recursive, recycle, recycle shop, recycling, re-engineering, regret, request, research, resize, rickettsia, Ricoh, rig, Rigel Kentaurus, rigorism, rigorist), 復誦 (rehearsal, repetition), 復唱 (rehearsal, repetition). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎんしょう (chant, recitation, silver general), おんがくかい (concert), おんがっかい (concert), リサイタル , ふくしょう (extra prize, placing bets, rehearsal, repetition, second in command), はっぴょうかい. (various references) | |
Korean | 리사이틀. (various references) | |
Manx | kiaull-chloie (operetta), aaloayrtys (recitation, repetition). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecitalray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | recital. (various references) | |
Romanian | relatare (account, narration, narrative, relating), recitare (recitation, reciting, repetition, saying), recital, povestire (account, anecdotage, fable, narration, narrative, recording, Rede, relation, short story, story, tale, telling), istorisire (relation, story), expunere (account, delivery, display, exhibit, exhibition, explanation, exposing, exposition, exposure, presentment, relation, speech, statement), declamare (declamation, recitation), audiţie (audience, audition, hearing, listen). (various references) | |
Russian | изложение (narration, narrative, presentment, recitals, recitation). (various references) | |
Scottish | aithris (imitation, narration, rehearsal, rehearse, repeat, tell, tell so Irish *ati-ris). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | recital. (various references) | |
Spanish | recital, narración (narration, narrative, relation, telling), declamacion (account carried forward, lecture), considerando (inasmuch), audición (audition, hearing, tryout). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppläsning (reading, recitation, rehearsal), konsert (concert, concerto). (various references) | |
Turkish | resital, solist konseri, ifade (declaration, denotation, deposition, enunciation, evidence, expression, import, locution, phrase, proposition, recital of fact, signification, statement, term, utterance, voice), hikâye (anecdote, history, narration, narrative, Rede, story, tale, version, yarn), ezberden okuma (recitation, repetition), beyan (asseveration, declaration, profession, pronouncement, representation, statement, the thingsI'll declare, to declare), anlatma (narration, recitation, relation, speech), öykü (narrative, story, tale). (various references) | |
Turkmen | konsert (r) (concert). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сольний концерт, оповідання (narration, relation, tale), переказ (rehearsal, remittance, tradition, version). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thuật lại (relation, version), sự kể lại (recitation, rehearsal, relation, version), sự kể lể, chuyện thuật lại sự ngâm, chuyện kể lại. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | auditio, auditione, auditionem, auditionis, relatus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | fravâkâi. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "recital": recitalist, recitalists, recitals. (additional references) | |
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"Recital" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: precoxal, ractical, recit, reital, Renitelo, retical, revictual, revital, Rohita, Rokita. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "recital" (pronounced rusī"tul) |
| 4 | -ī" t u l | entitle, title, vital. |
| 3 | -t u l | infantile, infertile, accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, throttle, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vittle, volatile, Whittle, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: article. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: atelic, cartel, citral, claret, eclair, lacier, rectal, relict, retail, retial, rictal, tailer. | |
-2 letters: alert, alter, areic, ariel, artel, caret, carle, carte, cater, ceria, citer, clear, cleat, crate, eclat, erica, ileac, irate, lacer, later, liter, litre, ratel, react, recta, recti, relic, relit, retia, taler, telia, telic, terai, tical, tiler, trace, trail, triac, trial. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: articled, articles, clarinet, erotical, lacertid, literacy, loricate, metrical, particle, prelatic, recitals, reticula, sterical, tailrace, tractile, vertical. | |
+2 letters: aleatoric, aliteracy, antiulcer, bacterial, cabriolet, calibrate, cartelise, cartelize, cartilage, certainly, circulate, cisternal, clarinets, clarities, crawliest, curtailed, curtailer, curtilage, decaliter, eristical, erratical, fortalice, graticule, heretical, interclan, interlace, lacertids, larcenist, lateritic, laticifer, lethargic, leviratic, loricates, lubricate, lucrative, particles, pearlitic, precoital, realistic, rectorial, replicate, reticular, revictual, sclerotia, sectorial, tailraces, theriacal, triticale, tularemic, vectorial, verticals, victualer. | |
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