recital

1. 1.

   the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events

   “his narration was hesitant”

   Synonymsnarrationyarn

   Broaderreport

   Narrowerrelation

   Partsbodyintroductionconclusion
2. 2.

   performance of music or dance especially by soloists

   Broaderperformance
3. 3.

   a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance

   “the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems”

   Synonymsrecitationreading

   Broaderpublic speaking

   Narrowerdeclamation
4. 4.

   a detailed statement giving facts and figures

   “his wife gave a recital of his infidelities”

   Broaderstatement
5. 5.

   a detailed account or description of something

   “he was forced to listen to a recital of his many shortcomings”

   Broaderhistory

Other forms of recital

plural

recitals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about recital

What does recital mean?

recital means "the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recital?

recital has 3 syllables: re-ci-tal. The stress falls on "ci". In IPA it is /ɹəˈsaɪtəl/.

What is another word for recital?

Close synonyms include narration, yarn, recitation, reading. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is recital a common word?

recital is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.