2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recitation \Rec`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. recitatio: cf F.
r['e]citation. See {Recite}.]
1. The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or
sentences. --Hammond.
2. The delivery before an audience of something committed to
memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also
that which is so delivered.
3. (Colleges and Schools) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils
before their instructor.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
recitation
n 1: a public instance of reciting or repeating something
prepared; "the program included songs and recitations of
well-loved poems" [syn: {recital}, {reading}]
2: an instance of a student reciting a lesson that has been
learned
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