Reprise

Definition: Reprise

Reprise

Verb

1. Repeat an earlier theme of a musical composition.

Date "reprise" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Reprise

Domain	Definitions
Sports & Leisure	A new attack made after returning to the guard position. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Reprise

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
RE	French	Reprise de l'équipement	Post & Telecom
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Reprise

Synonyms: recapitulate (v), repeat (v), reprize (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Reprise

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Taking	Resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Reprise

English words defined with "reprise": Reprizes. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Reprise" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (darn, darnel, mend, pickup, recapture, recovery, renewal, repeat, repetition, reprise, resumed, resumption, retrieval, revival, rework, round), German (recapitulation, repeat, rerun, revival), Portuguese (rerun).

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Modern Usage: Reprise

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

La Reprise du travail aux usines Wonder (1968)

Reprise (1996)

La Reprise (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Reprise

Domain	Title
Books	Reprise (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Frank Sinatra - The Reprise Collection (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (Finian's Rainbow, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls) [BOX SET] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Reprise

"Reprise" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "Reprise" is used about 30 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)	73.33%	22	74,468
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	16.67%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	10%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reprise

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
reprise record	69	maison reprise	3
reprise	53	reprise sinatra	3
reprise de finance	29	reprise warner	3
d entreprise reprise	10	appareils de reprise	3
entreprise reprise	9	cameo money reprise	3
de offre reprise voiture	8	collection frank reprise sinatra	3
de offres reprise voiture	7	got i lyrics reprise sublime	3
evangelion reprise	7	hypothecaire reprise	2
commerce reprise	5	dalton desperado doolin reprise	2
de poids reprise	5	frank reprise sinatra	2
de finance maison reprise	5	d entreprises reprise	2
de reprise valeur	3	gestion hypothecaire reprise	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reprise

Language		Translations for "reprise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rekapitulim. (various references)

Bulgarian		музикално повторение. (various references)

French		reprise (recapture, recaptured vessel, recharge, recirculation, recovery, regain, renewal, repeat, repetition, restart, resume, resumed, resumption, retake, retrieval, retry, revival, rework). (various references)

German		wieder gewinnen (to reprise). (various references)

Pig Latin		epriseray

Russian		расправа (shrift, violence). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		repriza (repetition). (various references)

Spanish		vuelta (change, detour, facing, gyration, lap, leg, return, revolution, round, row, spin, turn, turning, turn-over, twist, walking). (various references)

Swedish		vedergälla (repay, retaliate). (various references)

Ukranian		реприза. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Reprise

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	reprise. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reprise

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reprise": reprised, reprises. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reprise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rearise, redries, reeprise, represe, repressa, reprice, reprisak, reprose, repuise, rerise, rerize, rerose. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reprise"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reprise" (pronounced ruprī"z or ruprē"z)
5	-u p r ī" z	apprise.
4	-p r ī" z	comprise, emprise, pries, prize, surprise.
3	-r ī" z	cries, decries, dries, fries, rise, tries.
4	-p r ē" z	sprees.
3	-r ē" z	agrees, brees, breeze, decrees, degrees, disagrees, drees, frees, freeze, frieze, Rees, Reis, retirees, threes, trees.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reprise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: perries, prisere, respire.
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-p-r-r-s"
	-1 letter: priers, rerise, sirree, sprier.
	-2 letters: peers, peise, peris, perse, piers, prees, prese, prier, pries, prise, riper, ripes, riser, serer, siree, speer, speir, spier, spire, spree.
	-3 letters: errs, ires, peer, pees, peri, pier, pies, pree, rees, reis, reps, ripe, rips, rise, seep, seer, sere, sipe, sire.
	-4 letters: ere, err, ers, ire, pee, per, pes, pie.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-p-r-r-s"
	+1 letter: expirers, perspire, piercers, preciser, prefires, premiers, prerinse, presider, priseres, repiners, repliers, reprices, reprised, reprises, respired, respires, ripeners, roperies, simperer, spherier.
	+2 letters: deprivers, despairer, disperser, draperies, graperies, kipperers, peregrins, periderms, peripters, perjuries, persister, perspired, perspires, pilferers, portieres, premieres, preprices, prerinses, prescribe, presiders, prestrike, preterits, pruderies, rareripes, reinspire, repairers, reprieves, reserpine, simperers, spiderier, whisperer.
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