rehearsal
/ɹɪˈhɜːsl̩/US/ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/
rehearsal noun: the practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.
Noun
rehearsal (countable and uncountable, plural rehearsals)
- The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.
- After modifications had been effected by the builders, a rehearsal of electric operation was held on September 17. A complete day's timetable was run through and apparently all went well, except for insulator trouble with the overhead wires near Anniesland; a further rehearsal was held on the...1961 November, “Talking of Trains: "Blue trains" run again”, in Trains Illustrated, page 644
- A preparatory activity analogous to a rehearsal (sense 1).
- The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen.
- The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.
- The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.
rehearsal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
rehearsal in Hindi
- रिहर्सल
rehearsal in Tamil
- practicing of performance to test or improve it
- ஒத்திகை ottikai
rehearsal in Marathi
- रिहर्सल
rehearsal in Urdu
- ریہرسل
More languagesFewer languages
- rehearsal in Bengali
- মহড়া
- rehearsal in Telugu
- రిహర్సల్
- rehearsal in Malayalam
- റിഹേഴ്സൽ ṟihēḻsal, പരിശീലനം pariśīlanaṁ
- rehearsal in Kannada
- ಒತ್ತರ, ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ, ಪುನರಾವರ್ತನೆ, ತಾಲೀಮು
- rehearsal in Punjabi
- ਰਿਹਰਸਲ
- rehearsal in Gujarati
- રિહર્સલ
- rehearsal in Odia
- ରିହର୍ସାଲ, ରିହର୍ସାଲ୍, ରିହର୍ସଲ
- rehearsal in Arabic
- بَرُوفَة barūfa
- rehearsal in Malay
- raptai
- rehearsal in Indonesian
- gladi
Examples of rehearsal in a sentence
- Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze as soon as I got on stage.
- The final rehearsal of the day seemed to satisfy the director.
- From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
Antonyms of rehearsal
Forms of rehearsal
| plural | rehearsals |
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Origin of rehearsal
From Middle English rehercel, rehersail, rehersall, from rehersen and apparently partly Middle French rehercel. By surface analysis, rehearse + -al.
Words formed from rehearsal
Phrases with rehearsal
Words that rhyme with rehearsal
Questions about rehearsal
- What does rehearsal mean?
- Rehearsal means the practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.
- What is rehearsal in Hindi?
- Rehearsal in Hindi is रिहर्सल. See Rehearsal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rehearsal?
- Rehearsal is a noun.
- How do you pronounce rehearsal?
- Rehearsal is pronounced /ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/ (US).
- What is the plural of rehearsal?
- The plural of rehearsal is rehearsals.
Words near rehearsal in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rehearsal (page history and authors); rehearsal (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rehearsal (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rehearsal (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rehearsal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rehearsal (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); പരിശീലനം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); rehearsal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rehearsal (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rehearsal (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rehearsal (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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