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reciter

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

One who recites.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

1972, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics, London: Heinemann, Part Two, p. 75, The African song gets its effect from an accumulation of details, statements and imagery, and in the variation of the tone and attitude of the poet-reciter to the object of praise.

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noun

Meaning 2

someone who recites from memory

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English cite English recite English -er English reciter From recite + -er.

Across languages

Translations

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

Czech: recitátor — one who recites
French: réciteur — one who recites
French: récitateur — one who recites
Irish: aithriseoir — one who recites
Italian: declamatore — one who recites
Latin: recitātor — one who recites
Manx: aaloayreyder — one who recites
Polish: recytator — one who recites
Polish: recytatorka — one who recites
Russian: чтец (čtec) — one who recites
Russian: деклама́тор (deklamátor) — one who recites
Spanish: rapsoda — one who recites

Word forms

Inflections and variants

reciters — plural

Word family

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Other relationships

Hypernyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser

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