reprise
/ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A recurrence or resumption of an action.
noun
A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
noun
noun
Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
noun
A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
noun
In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
Example Sentences
- "Your care about your banks infers a fear Of threatening floods ,and inundations near; If so, a just reprise would only be Of what the land usurped upon the sea"
- "How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize."
- "The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it."
- "The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *gʰed-, reprise