repeat

1. 1.

   an event that repeats

   “the events today were a repeat of yesterday's”

   Synonymsrepetition

   Broaderperiodic event

   Narrowersequencecyclereplayrecurrence

Other forms of repeat

plural

repeats·

past tense

repeated·

present participle

repeating·

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 repeat

What does repeat mean?

repeat means "to say, state, or perform again". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repeat?

repeat has 2 syllables: re-peat. The stress falls on "peat". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈpit/.

What is another word for repeat?

Close synonyms include reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell. 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 repeat a common word?

repeat is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with repeat?

2 words rhyme with repeat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.