Meaning

5 senses
  1. An iteration; a repetition.

    We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.

  2. A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.

  3. A refill of a prescription.

  4. A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).

  5. A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

More definitions
  • an event that repeats

Examples

616 sentences
  1. I'm sorry, could you repeat that?

    Перепрошую, ти не міг би це повторити? — deniko

    ruПростите, Вы не могли бы это повторить? — marafon

  2. I'm not going to repeat myself.

    Я не буду повторюватися. — deniko

  3. Tom repeated the word several times.

    Том повторив слово кілька разів. — deniko

    ruТом повторил слово несколько раз. — odexed

    deTom wiederholte das Wort mehrere Male. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. The teacher made me repeat the sentence.

    Вчитель примусив мене повторити речення. — deniko

    deDer Lehrer ließ mich den Satz wiederholen. — Manfredo

  5. I repeated the word several times for her.

    Я повторив це слово для неї декілька раз. — seveleu_dubrovnik

    ruЯ несколько раз повторил ей это слово. — ae5s

    deIch habe das Wort einige Male für sie wiederholt. — Espi

Translations

5 languages

Origin

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix r

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).

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Forms

plural: repeats
Singularrepeat
Pluralrepeats

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
iteration; repetition:reiteration
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

Collocations

8 patterns
  • repeat the question
  • please repeat
  • repeating itself
  • please repeat what
  • repeat myself
  • repeat that please
  • had to repeat
  • repeat himself

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
repeat — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto