reprise
/ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
reprise noun: a recurrence or resumption of an action.
Noun
reprise (plural reprises)
- A recurrence or resumption of an action.
- A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
- A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
- A taking by way of retaliation.
- Your care about your banks infers a fear
Of threatening floods ,and inundations near;
If so, a just reprise would only be
Of what the land usurped upon the sea1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC
- Your care about your banks infers a fear
- Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
- A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
- In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
Verb
reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)
- To take (something) up or on again.
- How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- To repeat or resume an action or a role.
- The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
- The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 161
- Synonyms:
- repeat
- To recompense; to pay.
- Synonyms:
- compensate
reprise meaning in Malay
reprise in Malay
- (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- repris, ripresa
Synonyms of reprise
Forms of reprise
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | reprises |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | reprises |
| present participle | reprising |
| past participle | reprised |
| past | reprised |
Origin of reprise
From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.
Words formed from reprise
Words that rhyme with reprise
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- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
- agrees
Questions about reprise
- What does reprise mean?
- Reprise means a recurrence or resumption of an action.
- What is reprise in Malay?
- Reprise in Malay is repris, ripresa. See Reprise meaning in Malay.
- What part of speech is reprise?
- Reprise can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce reprise?
- Reprise is pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/.
- What is the plural of reprise?
- The plural of reprise is reprises.
Words near reprise in the dictionary
Source and license
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