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Noun

HYPHEN

rec=i=ta=tion

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun recitation has 4 senses

recitation(n = noun.communication) - written matter that is recited from memory;

is a kind of

matter

Derived form verb recite₂

recitation(n = noun.communication) reading, recital - a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems"

is a kind of oral presentation, public speaking, speaking, speechmaking

has particulars: declamation

Derived forms verb recite₁, verb recite₃

recitation(n = noun.act) class period, course session - a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study;

is a part of class, course, course of instruction, course of study

is a kind of session

recitation(n = noun.act) drill, exercise, practice, practice session - systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect"

is a kind of grooming, preparation, training

has particulars: fire drill, manual, manual of arms, military drill, rehearsal, dry run, rehearsal, brushup, review, scrimmage, shadowboxing, target practice

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CIDE DICTIONARY

recitation, n. [L. recitatio: cf. F. récitation. See Recite.].

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences. Hammond. [1913 Webster]
The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered. [1913 Webster]
The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

recitation, n.
1 the act or an instance of reciting.
2 a thing recited.

Etymology

OF recitation or L recitatio (as RECITE)

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THESAURUS

recitation

address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, chalk talk, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, exposition, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, instruction, invective, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, monologue, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, object lesson, oration, pep talk, performance, peroration, philippic, pitch, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, set speech, set task, skull session, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address

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recitation

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.