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RECITAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Performance of music or dance especially by soloists
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recital" is a kind of...):
performance; public presentation (a dramatic or musical entertainment)
Derivation:
recitalist (a musician who gives recitals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
Example:
his narration was hesitant
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recital" is a kind of...):
account; report (the act of informing by verbal report)
Meronyms (parts of "recital"):
body (the central message of a communication)
introduction (the first section of a communication)
close; closing; conclusion; end; ending (the last section of a communication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recital"):
recounting; relation; telling (an act of narration)
Derivation:
recite (narrate or give a detailed account of)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A detailed account or description of something
Example:
he was forced to listen to a recital of his many shortcomings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recital" is a kind of...):
account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)
Derivation:
recite (narrate or give a detailed account of)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A detailed statement giving facts and figures
Example:
his wife gave a recital of his infidelities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recital" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
Example:
the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems
Synonyms:
reading; recital; recitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recital" is a kind of...):
oral presentation; public speaking; speaking; speechmaking (delivering an address to a public audience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recital"):
declamation (recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric)
Derivation:
recitalist (a musician who gives recitals)
recite (render verbally)
Context examples:
His recitals were amusing in themselves to Sir Thomas, but the chief object in seeking them was to understand the reciter, to know the young man by his histories; and he listened to his clear, simple, spirited details with full satisfaction, seeing in them the proof of good principles, professional knowledge, energy, courage, and cheerfulness, everything that could deserve or promise well.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
During my recital, she kept her eyes on Mr. Dick, who I thought would have gone to sleep but for that, and who, whensoever he lapsed into a smile, was checked by a frown from my aunt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She was not sorry, however, to have the recital of them interrupted by the lady from whom they sprang.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He smiled at my recital.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She managed the recital, as she hoped, with address; prepared her anxious listener with caution; related simply and honestly the chief points on which Willoughby grounded his apology; did justice to his repentance, and softened only his protestations of present regard.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Still Mrs. Norris was at intervals urging something different; and in the most interesting moment of his passage to England, when the alarm of a French privateer was at the height, she burst through his recital with the proposal of soup.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
So far each recital confirmed the other; but when she came to the will, the difference was great.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
