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# recite

«recite» in Mova's school dictionary: **to say a poem, story or piece of writing aloud from memory** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (recite, recites, recited, reciting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To recite is to say a poem, story or piece of writing aloud from memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#m1)

2) To recite a list is to say many things one after another, like facts or names. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school pupils recite poems, times tables and prayers in assemblies and performances. In everyday life a person may recite a phone number or a list of complaints. Phrases: «recite a poem», «recite the alphabet», «recite your times tables».

### examples

- She recited a poem in assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#x1)
- Can you recite the seven times table? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#x2)
- We recited the alphabet backwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#x3)
- He recited the list of planets from memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#x4)
- The class recited the poem together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#x5)
- The boy recited his address to the police officer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#x6)
- Grandad can still recite poems from school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#x7)
- She recited all the reasons she should get a dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#x8)
- Here a group played circus, there another sang and recited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recite/#x9)

### note

Regular verb; drop -e before -ing: reciting. Noun: recital (a performance), recitation. Reciting from memory is not the same as reading aloud.

### In the corpora

- [The Gryphon orders her to stand up and recite «'Tis the voice of the sluggard».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/4/)
- [The Qur'an is the holy book of Islam; Muslims believe it is God's word, and it is recited in Arabic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/31-islam/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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