recite
verb /rɪˈsaɪt/
/rɪˈsaɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they recite | /rɪˈsaɪt/ /rɪˈsaɪt/ |
| he / she / it recites | /rɪˈsaɪts/ /rɪˈsaɪts/ |
| past simple recited | /rɪˈsaɪtɪd/ /rɪˈsaɪtɪd/ |
| past participle recited | /rɪˈsaɪtɪd/ /rɪˈsaɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form reciting | /rɪˈsaɪtɪŋ/ /rɪˈsaɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to say a poem, piece of literature, etc. that you have learned, especially to an audience
- recite (something) (to somebody) Each child had to recite a poem to the class.
- recite what… She recited what she had learned.
- + speech ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud,’ he recited.
Wordfinder- couplet
- image
- lyric
- poetry
- recite
- refrain
- rhyme
- scansion
- stanza
- verse
- [transitive] recite something (to somebody) | recite what… | + speech to say a list or series of things
- They recited all their grievances to me.
- She could recite a list of all the kings and queens.
Word Originlate Middle English (as a legal term in the sense ‘state (a fact) in a document’): from Old French reciter or Latin recitare ‘read out’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + citare ‘cite’.