noun
Meaning 1
An iteration; a repetition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
repeat
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpiːt/
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/ɹɪˈpit/
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/ˈɹi.pit/
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Canada: /ɹɪˈpiːt/
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rhymes with -iːt
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CMU ARPABET: R IH0 P IY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: R IY0 P IY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A refill of a prescription.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: pharmacy
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, genetics, medicine, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To do or say again (and again).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
- I'll tell you my secret, but first promise me you won't repeat it to anyone else!
- I don't mind talking about the incident, but one gets tired of repeating themself after the hundredth time.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To refill (a prescription).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: pharmacy
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To happen again; recur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- A day like that has not yet repeated itself.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To echo the words of (a person).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To strike the hours, as a watch does.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 12
To repay or refund (an excess received).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 13
To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: procedure word
Topics: government, military, politics, war
Examples
- Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.
- Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 14
To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 15
an event that repeats
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the events today were a repeat of yesterday's
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: repetition
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: periodic event, recurrent event
Narrower terms: sequence, cycle, replay, rematch, recurrence, return
verb
Meaning 16
happen or occur again
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This is a recurring story
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: recur
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Narrower terms: iterate, cycle
verb
Meaning 17
to say again or imitate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- followers echoing the cries of their leaders
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: echo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: utter, emit, let out, let loose
Narrower terms: recite, cuckoo, reecho, parrot, regurgitate, reproduce
verb
Meaning 18
to say, state, or perform again
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She kept reiterating her request
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tell
Narrower terms: perseverate, ditto, harp, dwell, translate, interpret, render, paraphrase, rephrase, reword, sum up, summarize, summarise, resume, quote, cite
verb
Meaning 19
repeat an earlier theme of a composition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reprise, reprize, recapitulate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: play, spiel
verb
Meaning 20
make or do or perform again
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, double, replicate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reproduce
Narrower terms: replicate, copy, recapitulate, reduplicate, geminate
verb
Meaning 21
do over
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- They would like to take it over again
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: take over
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: act, move
History
Etymology
From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).
Across languages
Translations
126 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: répétition — pattern of nucleic acids
- Italian: ripetizione — pattern of nucleic acids
- Portuguese: repetição — pattern of nucleic acids
- Spanish: repetición — pattern of nucleic acids
- Tagalog: ulit — pattern of nucleic acids
- Bashkir: ҡабатлау (qabatlaw) — rerun of a television broadcast — see also rerun
- Bulgarian: повторе́ние (povtorénie) — rerun of a television broadcast — see also rerun
- Urdu: نَشَر مُکَرَّر (naśar mukarrar) — rerun of a television broadcast — see also rerun
- Afrikaans: herhalingsteken — music mark directing a section be repeated
- Polish: repetycja — music mark directing a section be repeated
- Afrikaans: herhaal — do or say again
- Southern Altai: каттаар (kattaar) — do or say again
- Southern Altai: катап айдар (katap aydar) — do or say again
- Arabic: كَرَّرَ (karrara) — do or say again
- Arabic: أَعَادَ (ʔaʕāda) — do or say again
- Arabic: كرر (karrar) — do or say again
- Arabic: كَرَّر (karrar) — do or say again
- Arabic: عاد (ʕād) — do or say again
- Arabic: كَرَّر (karrar) — do or say again
- Arabic: عاد (ʕād) — do or say again
- Armenian: կրկնել (krknel) — do or say again
- Assamese: আওৰা (aüra) — do or say again
- Assamese: দোহাৰ (dühar) — do or say again
- Asturian: repetir — do or say again
- Azerbaijani: təkrarlamaq — do or say again
- Bashkir: ҡабатлау (qabatlaw) — do or say again
- Belarusian: паўтара́ць (pawtarácʹ) — do or say again
- Belarusian: паўтары́ць (pawtarýcʹ) — do or say again
- Bulgarian: повта́рям (povtárjam) — do or say again
- Burmese: ထပ် (htap) — do or say again
- Catalan: repetir — do or say again
- Eastern Min Chinese: 重複 /重复 (tyung houk) — do or say again
- Chinese Mandarin: 重複 /重复 (chóngfù) — do or say again
- Czech: opakovat — do or say again
- Czech: zopakovat — do or say again
- Danish: gentage — do or say again
- Dutch: herhalen — do or say again
- Dutch: wederhalen — do or say again
- Dutch: herdoen — do or say again
- Dutch: herzeggen — do or say again
- Egyptian: wHm-m-A2 (wḥm) — do or say again
- Esperanto: rediri — do or say again
- Esperanto: ripeti — do or say again
- Estonian: kordama — do or say again
- Finnish: toistaa — do or say again
- French: répéter — do or say again
- Galician: repetir — do or say again
- Georgian: იმეორებს (imeorebs) — do or say again
- Georgian: გაიმეორებს (gaimeorebs) — do or say again
- Georgian: გამეორება (gameoreba) — do or say again
- German: wiederholen — do or say again
- Greek: επαναλαμβάνω (epanalamváno) — do or say again
- Hebrew: חזר (khazár) — do or say again
- Hebrew: שנה (shaná) — do or say again
- Higaonon: liko — do or say again
- Hindi: दोहराना (dohrānā) — do or say again
- Hindi: फिर से कहना (phir se kahnā) — do or say again
- White Hmong: ua dua — do or say again
- Hungarian: megismétel — do or say again
- Icelandic: endurtaka — do or say again
- Ido: ridicar — do or say again
- Ido: repetar — do or say again
- Indonesian: mengulang — do or say again
- Interlingua: repeter — do or say again
- Italian: ripetere — do or say again
- Japanese: 繰り返す (kurikaesu) — do or say again
- Japanese: リピートする (ripīto suru) — do or say again
- Old Javanese: wali — do or say again
- Kapampangan: pasibaiuan — do or say again
- Kapampangan: pasibayuwan — do or say again
- Kazakh: қайталау (qaitalau) — do or say again
- Khmer: ...ម្ដងទៀត (...mdɑɑng tiət) — do or say again
- Korean: 되풀이하다 (doepurihada) — do or say again
- Korean: 반복하다 (banbokhada) — do or say again
- Korean: 따라하다 (ttarahada) — do or say again
- Kumyk: къайтарып айтмакъ (qaytarıp aytmaq) — do or say again
- Kumyk: къайтарып этмек (qaytarıp etmek) — do or say again
- Lao: ຊ້ໍາ (sam) — do or say again
- Latin: repetō — do or say again
- Latin: iterō — do or say again
- Latin: instaurō — do or say again
- Latvian: atkārtot — do or say again
- Lithuanian: pakartoti — do or say again
- Malay: ulang — do or say again
- Māori: takarure — do or say again
- Māori: toai — do or say again
- Norman: èrpéter — do or say again
- Norman: répetar — do or say again
- Norwegian Bokmål: gjenta — do or say again
- Norwegian Bokmål: gjenfortelle — do or say again
- Occitan: repetir — do or say again
- Old English: æftercweþan — do or say again
- Old English: edlæcan — do or say again
- Old English: eftgian — do or say again
- Persian: تکرار کردن (tekrâr kardan) — do or say again
- Persian: بازگفتن (bāzgoftan) — do or say again
- Persian: بازکردن (bāzkardan) — do or say again
- Polish: powtarzać — do or say again
- Polish: powtórzyć — do or say again
- Polish: ponowić — do or say again
- Portuguese: repetir — do or say again
- Russian: повторя́ть (povtorjátʹ) — do or say again
- Russian: повтори́ть (povtorítʹ) — do or say again
- Serbo-Croatian: поно̀вити — do or say again
- Serbo-Croatian: ponòviti — do or say again
- Sikkimese: སྐྱོར (skyor) — do or say again
- Slovak: opakovať — do or say again
- Slovene: ponoviti — do or say again
- Spanish: repetir — do or say again
- Spanish: menudear — do or say again
- Spanish: refrendar — do or say again
- Swedish: repetera — do or say again
- Swedish: upprepa — do or say again
- Thai: ทําซ้ํา (tam sám) — do or say again
- Turkish: tekrarlamak — do or say again
- Turkish: yinelemek — do or say again
- Turkish: tekrar etmek — do or say again
- Ukrainian: повто́рювати (povtórjuvaty) — do or say again
- Ukrainian: повтори́ти (povtorýty) — do or say again
- Urdu: دوہرانا (dohrānā) — do or say again
- Vietnamese: lặp — do or say again
- Vietnamese: lặp lại — do or say again
- Walloon: ridire — do or say again
- Walloon: repeter — do or say again
- Walloon: rifé — do or say again
- Welsh: ailadrodd — do or say again
Real reading context