Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who recites or rehearses; a narrator or declaimer, especially of what has been previously written or told.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who
recites
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who recites from memory
Etymologies
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Examples
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And one can see what he means, yet the finished piece is often loud, tense and urgent, as Adjoa Andoh gallantly holds the action together in multiple roles – as a medical commentator who harangues us on the way failing memory manifests itself, as the old men's cook, explaining their week in uneaten meals and as a reciter of Ovid, pronouncing upon Time.
Or You Could Kiss Me – review Kate Kellaway 2010
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Aside from being an expert prayer leader and reciter of Quranic verses, there's nothing particularly impressive about him, says Pakistani journalist and Taliban expert Rahimullah Yusufzai.
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The separate line written for the ‘reciter’ and its musical accompaniment were abandoned.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Another renowned performer who emerged from the Yiddish theater was Berta Singerman, who became the premier reciter of poems in the Americas.
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She first appeared on stage at the Komödie theater in 1929 with the reciter Ernst Ceiss.
Cilli Wang. 2009
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The Web site of Toyotake Sakihodayu, a 34-year-old popular bunraku reciter, shows maps of theaters in Osaka and Tokyo where you can pick a seat and make a reservation.
Puppet Love Aika Nanao 2009
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Consequently, it is a call for every reciter of this ziyara to spiritually prepare himself to appreciate this reality in order to be able to naturally express the same.
Archive 2008-02-01 mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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Consequently, it is a call for every reciter of this ziyara to spiritually prepare himself to appreciate this reality in order to be able to naturally express the same.
The Ecstatic Dimension of Karbala [Part 2] mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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“Kursi,” a word of many meanings; here it would allure to the square crate-like seat of palm-fronds used by the Ráwi or public reciter of tales when he is not pacing about the coffee-house.
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In explaining the word "hallowed," Weeramantry says, "When the Prayer says 'hallowed' be thy name, it is saying that the reciter will treat God as hallowed."
Chris Rodda: S.C. Legislature: Lord's Prayer a Legal Document 2008
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