Report Meaning
/ɹɪˈpɔːt/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
verbTo repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
Sentence Examples
I prefer to look for a solution to problems, not only to report them.
Have you turned in your report?
The government has been cautious in its response to the report.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The weatherman prepared a daily ____ on the temperature and rainfall for the week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The journalist was asked to ____ on the situation in the conflict zone for the evening news.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, from Latin reportāre (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + portāre.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported[…]that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration."
— 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, pages 47–48:
"thenne they ansuerd by and by that they coude not excuse the quene /[…]/ Allas sayd the quene I made this dyner for a good entente / and neuer for none euyl soo almyghty god me help in my ryght as I was neuer purposed to doo suche euylle dedes / and that I reporte me vnto god"
— 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
"Although she was junior to [Barret] Zoph, the report said that she did not report directly to him."
— 2026 January 22, R. Ghosh, “Who Is Barret Zoph? Co-Founder of $12B AI Startup Fired after CEO Mira Murati Learns of Office Affair as Both Lovebirds Go Back to OpenAI”, in International Business Times:
"Baldwine his ſonne, the fourth of that name [Baldwin IV of Jerusalem], ſucceeded his father [Amalric of Jerusalem]: ſo like unto him, that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will ſpare the repeating his description."
— 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Baldwine the Fourth Succeedeth; His Education under William the Reverend Archbishop of Tyre”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 94:
"a church with windows only from above[…] that reporteth the voice twelve or thirteen times"
— 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The weatherman prepared a daily ____ on the temperature and rainfall for the week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The journalist was asked to ____ on the situation in the conflict zone for the evening news.