noun
Meaning 1
A recurrence or resumption of an action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
reprise
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noun
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 3
A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fencing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
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noun
Meaning 4
A taking by way of retaliation.
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noun
Meaning 5
Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 6
A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
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noun
Meaning 7
In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, construction, manufacturing
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verb
Meaning 8
To take (something) up or on again.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To repeat or resume an action or a role.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
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verb
Meaning 10
To recompense; to pay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 11
repeat an earlier theme of a composition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reprize, repeat, recapitulate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: play, spiel
History
Etymology
From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Spanish: reprise — repetition
- Spanish: reprís — repetition
- Bulgarian: реприз (repriz) — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Chinese Mandarin: 再現 /再现 (zàixiàn) — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Dutch: herneming — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Dutch: reprise — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Finnish: toisinto — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Finnish: toisto — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- French: reprise — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Italian: ripresa — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Malay: repris — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Malay: ripresa — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Polish: repryza — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Russian: репри́за (repríza) — (music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
- Bulgarian: репри́з (repríz) — (fencing) a renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position
- Bulgarian: повта́рям (povtárjam) — to repeat or resume an action
- Bulgarian: повто́ря (povtórja) — to repeat or resume an action
- Dutch: hernemen — to repeat or resume an action
- Finnish: toistaa — to repeat or resume an action
- Finnish: uusia — to repeat or resume an action
- Russian: повторя́ть (povtorjátʹ) — to repeat or resume an action
- Spanish: reprisar — to repeat or resume an action
- Spanish: segundar — to repeat or resume an action
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