rehearsal

CEFRB2

/ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A practice session before a performance or event.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A preparatory activity analogous to a rehearsal (sense 1).

Examples

  • After a ten-minute break, we resumed our rehearsal.

  • Tom and Mary had to go to band rehearsal.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.

  2. The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.

More examples

In context

  • Tomorrow there will be no normal lessons, in view of the athletic meet rehearsal.

  • The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen.

  • The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.

Antonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The orchestra had a final blank before the concert to perfect every note.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English rehercel, rehersail, rehersall, from rehersen and apparently partly Middle French rehercel. By surface analysis, rehearse + -al.