recite

Meaning

1. (transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
2. (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
3. (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.

Synonyms

chant

tell

declaim

repeat

🔁

recount

narrate

sing

read

📖

read aloud

intone

rehearse

relate

retell

enumerate

describe

deliver

speak

🗣️

talk

🗣️

quote

itemise

start singing

count

🔢

learn by heart

list

announce

she recited it

incant

compose

utter

proclaim

itemize

call upon

state

submit

vocalise

vocalize

bite out

conspire with

read out loud

elocute

memorize by rote

redact

bid

call out

cap

chronicle

cite

excerpt

extract

invite

Translations

réciter

recitare

recitar

vortragen

rezitieren

απαγγέλλω

recitar

declamare

declameren

reciteren

voordragen

déclamer

declamar

narrar

διηγούμαι

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈsaɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: reciten

In summary

From Middle English reciten, from Old French reciter, from Latin recitō.