Dictionary entry details
• RECITE (verb)
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
Meaning:
Repeat aloud from memory
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context examples:
she recited a poem / 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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Render verbally,
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
retell; recite
Context examples:
recite a poem / retell a story
Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):
re-create (create anew)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Narrate or give a detailed account of
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
recount; narrate; tell; recite
Context examples:
Tell what happened / The father told a story to his child
Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):
inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recite"):
rhapsodise; rhapsodize (recite a rhapsody)
yarn (tell or spin a yarn)
crack (tell spontaneously)
relate (give an account of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence example:
The parents recite a French poem to the children
Meaning:
Specify individually
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
enumerate; itemize; itemise; recite
Context examples:
She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered / 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
