noun
- a musical entertainment given usually by a single performer or by a performer and one or more accompanists.
- a similar entertainment in a field other than music: a dance recital.
- a program or concert by dance or music students to demonstrate their achievements or progress.
- an act or instance of reciting.
- a formal or public delivery of something memorized.
- a detailed statement.
- an account, narrative, or description: He gave a recital of the things he’d been doing since we’d last seen him.
noun
- a musical performance by a soloist or soloistsCompare concert (def. 1)
- the act of reciting or repeating something learned or prepared
- an account, narration, or description
- a detailed statement of facts, figures, etc
- (often plural) law the preliminary statement in a deed showing the reason for its existence and leading up to and explaining the operative part
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.