Repeat Meaning
/ɹɪˈpiːt/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo do or say again (and again).
verbTo refill (a prescription).
Sentence Examples
Could you please repeat that?
You had better not repeat such an error.
She didn't want a repeat performance of what had happened the night before.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher asked the student to ____ the answer because it was too quiet.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The teacher asked the student to ____ the answer more clearly so that the whole class could hear.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper."
— 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
"From Berlin and Tokyo and Rome, we have been described as a nation of weaklings- playboys- who would hire British soldiers or Russian soldiers or Chinese soldiers to do our fighting for us. Let them repeat that now. Let them tell that to General McArthur and his men. Let them tell that to the sailors who today are hitting hard in the far waters of the Pacific. Let them tell that to the boys in the Flying Fortresses. Let them tell that to the Marines."
— 1942, Franklin Roosevelt, 1:12 from the start, in Roosevelt Answers Critics - 1942 (1942), British Pathé:
"Their rationale with repeating me was that the prior program had not been of sufficient quality to teach me the error of my ways."
— 2008, Ken Jensen, Ronda Del Boccio, It Takes Guts to Be Me: How an Ex-marine Beat Bipolar Disorder:
"He[…] repeats the danger of the burning town."
— a. 1687, Edmund Waller, The Battel of the Summer Islands:
""You have just sent a telegram to Brookbend Cottage," he said to the young lady behind the brasswork lattice. "We think it may have come inaccurately and should like a repeat.""
— 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher asked the student to ____ the answer because it was too quiet.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The teacher asked the student to ____ the answer more clearly so that the whole class could hear.