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re-cite

re-cite verb: to cite again, as with a second or subsequent citation.

Verb

re-cite (third-person singular simple present re-cites, present participle re-citing, simple past and past participle re-cited)

  1. To cite again, as with a second or subsequent citation.
    • […] eleven of them refer to [Daniel] Corkery's book Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature, which is fully re-cited in eleven different sections. It would have been more efficient to have cited Corkery's book fully one time and then re-cite it in abbreviated form in head notes to the other sections.1974, Journal of Irish Literature, volume 3, page 53
    • In order to understand the importance of context and genre for the identification of a re-citation, we may look at an example of a recurring re-citational source, namely, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. […] In [Janet] Frame's novels and autobiographies there are several references to Woolf's...2006, Maria Wikse, Materialisations of a Woman Writer: Investigating Janet Frame's Biographical Legend, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 24

re-cite meaning in Bengali

re-cite in Bengali

পুনরায় উদ্ধৃত করা, পরবর্তী উদ্ধৃতিতে

Forms of re-cite

third-person singular presentre-cites
present participlere-citing
past participlere-cited
pastre-cited
alternative formrecite

Questions about re-cite

What does re-cite mean?
Re-cite means to cite again, as with a second or subsequent citation.
What is re-cite in Bengali?
Re-cite in Bengali is পুনরায় উদ্ধৃত করা, পরবর্তী উদ্ধৃতিতে. See Re-cite meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is re-cite?
Re-cite is a verb.
What is the past tense of re-cite?
The past tense of re-cite is re-cited.

Words near re-cite in the dictionary

  1. re-checks
  2. re-Christianize
  3. re-Christianized
  4. re-Christianizes
  5. re-Christianizing
  6. re-cite
  7. re-cited
  8. re-cites
  9. re-citing
  10. re-clone
  11. re-cloned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: re-cite (page history and authors); re-cite (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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