Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Probe, Übstunde

    репети́цияrepetícija

    репети́ціяrepetýcija

  2. (countable, uncountable)A preparatory activity analogous to a rehearsal (sense 1).

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

  3. (countable, uncountable)The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.

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

More definitions
  • (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory
  • a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)

Examples

70 sentences
  1. Rehearsals are going well.

    Репетиції йдуть добре. — Ahha

  2. I came straight here from rehearsal.

    ruС репетиции я приехал прямо сюда. — odexed

    deIch bin nach der Probe sofort hierhergekommen. — alik_farber

  3. How did the wedding rehearsal go?

  4. We have a dress rehearsal tomorrow.

  5. That's why we have dress rehearsals.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
practicing of performance to test or improve it:
Русский
By meaning 1
practicing of performance to test or improve it:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
practicing of performance to test or improve it:

Origin

From Middle English rehercel, rehersail, rehersall, from rehersen and apparently partly Mi

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

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Forms

plural: rehearsals
Singularrehearsal
Pluralrehearsals

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert):dry run

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

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