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# recital

«recital» in Mova's school dictionary: **A performance of music, dance or poetry, often by one…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a recital, recitals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A performance of music, dance or poetry, often by one person or by pupils, for an audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#m1)

2) A spoken list or account of many things, one after another: a recital of complaints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#m2)

3) The act of saying a poem or text aloud from memory (recitation). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday and school life, a piano recital or dance recital is a show where pupils perform what they have learned for parents. In stories, a recital can be a nervous, exciting moment. "A recital of facts" means a long telling of them. Phrases: piano recital, dance recital, give a recital, end-of-year recital.

### examples

- My piano recital is on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#x1)
- Everyone clapped at the end of the dance recital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#x2)
- She practised her violin every day before the recital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#x3)
- Our class gave a poetry recital in assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#x4)
- Grandma listened to my long recital of everything that went wrong at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#x5)
- I was nervous before the recital, but I played well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#x6)
- "How very confusing!" said the jackal, when the recital was ended; "would you mind telling me over again, for everything has got so mixed up?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/#x7)

### note

Countable: a recital, recitals. From the verb "recite" (say aloud from memory). A recital is a performance; a "rehearsal" is the practice before it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recital» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recital/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.