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recital


noun

  1. a musical entertainment given usually by a single performer or by a performer and one or more accompanists.
  2. a similar entertainment in a field other than music: a dance recital.
  3. a program or concert by dance or music students to demonstrate their achievements or progress.
  4. an act or instance of reciting.
  5. a formal or public delivery of something memorized.
  6. a detailed statement.
  7. an account, narrative, or description: He gave a recital of the things he’d been doing since we’d last seen him.

noun

  1. a musical performance by a soloist or soloistsCompare concert (def. 1)
  2. the act of reciting or repeating something learned or prepared
  3. an account, narration, or description
  4. a detailed statement of facts, figures, etc
  5. (often plural) law the preliminary statement in a deed showing the reason for its existence and leading up to and explaining the operative part
n.

1510s, a legal term, “rehearsal or statement of relevant facts,” from recite + -al. Meaning “act of reciting” is from 1610s; musical performance sense is from 1811.

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