repeat
pronunciation
How to pronounce repeat in British English:
UK [rɪˈpiːt]
How to pronounce repeat in American English:
US [rɪˈpiːt]
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- Noun:
- an event that repeats
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- Verb:
- to say, state, or perform again
- make or do or perform again
- happen or occur again
- to say again or imitate
- do over
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
Word Origin
- repeat
- repeat: [14] The -peat of repeat comes ultimately from Latin petere ‘go to, seek’, which has also given English appetite, compete, impetuous, perpetual [14], petition [14], and petulant [16]. Addition of the prefix re- ‘back, again’ produced repetere ‘go back to’, which reached English via Old French repeter.=> appetite, compete, impetuous, perpetual, petition, petulant
- repeat (v.)
- late 14c., "to say what one has already said," from Old French repeter "say or do again, get back, demand the return of" (13c., Modern French répéeter), from Latin repetere "do or say again; attack again," from re- "again" (see re-) + petere "to go to; attack; strive after; ask for, beseech" (see petition (n.)). Meaning "say what another has said" is from 1590s. As an emphatic word in radio broadcasts, 1938. Meaning "do over again" is from 1550s; specific meaning "to take a course of education over again" is recorded from 1945, American English. Related: Repeated; repeating.
- repeat (n.)
- mid-15c., of music passages, from repeat (v.). From 1937 of broadcasts.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Repeat until the marks are gone .
- 2. A few are hoping for a repeat this year .
- 3. Repeat this process and networks of linked words will emerge .
- 4. How can hong kong repeat the trick ?
- 5. Listen carefully to every word you hear , then repeat them out loud .