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7-letter words (4 found)

PERRIES,PRISERE,REPRISE,RESPIRE,

6-letter words (9 found)

EPRISE,ESPIER,PRIERS,PRISER,RERISE,RIPERS,SIRREE,SPERRE,SPRIER,

5-letter words (23 found)

EPRIS,PEERS,PEISE,PERES,PERIS,PERSE,PIERS,PREES,PRESE,PRIER,PRIES,PRISE,RIPER,RIPES,RISER,SERER,SERRE,SIREE,SPEER,SPEIR,SPIER,SPIRE,SPREE,

4-letter words (27 found)

ERES,ERRS,IRES,PEER,PEES,PERE,PERI,PIER,PIES,PIRS,PISE,PREE,REES,REIS,REPS,RIPE,RIPS,RISE,RISP,SEEP,SEER,SEIR,SERE,SERR,SIPE,SIRE,SPIE,

3-letter words (23 found)

ERE,ERR,ERS,IRE,PEE,PER,PES,PIE,PIR,PIS,PRE,PSI,REE,REI,REP,RES,RIP,SEE,SEI,SER,SIP,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (8 found)

EE,ER,ES,IS,PE,PI,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 95 words from reprise according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of reprise

reprise

Etymology

From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/
  • Rhymes: -aɪz
  • The music and fencing meanings are pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, reflecting its French origins; the everyday meaning of a recurrence of an action is often pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/, by similarity to words like rise and prise.
  • Regardless of noun pronunciation, the verb form is typically pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/ in most dialects.

Noun

reprise (plural reprises)

  1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
  2. (music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
  3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
  4. A taking by way of retaliation.
  5. (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes
  6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
  7. (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

Translations

Verb

reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
  2. To repeat or resume an action or a role.
  3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.

Synonyms

  • (repeat an action): repeat; see also Thesaurus:reiterate
  • (recompense): compensate, reimburse; see also Thesaurus:reimburse

Related terms

  • reprehend
  • reprieve
  • reprisal

Translations

See also

  • reprisal

Further reading

  • “reprise”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Anagrams

  • perries, respire

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from the French reprise.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rəˈpriː.zə/
  • Hyphenation: re‧pri‧se
  • Rhymes: -iːzə

Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

  1. A repeat, resumption.
    Synonyms: herhaling, herneming

French

Etymology

From the feminine of repris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.pʁiz/

Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

  1. a time, instance
    Synonym: fois
  2. (sports) a second-half kick-off
  3. (music) a reprise
  4. (music) a cover, cover version
  5. (television) a repeat, rerun
  6. (boxing) a round

Derived terms

  • à maintes reprises
  • reprise de volée

Participle

reprise f sg

  1. feminine singular of repris

Further reading

  • “reprise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • pierres, prières, respire, respiré

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: re‧pri‧se

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French reprise.

Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

  1. (Brazil) rerun (a re-airing of a TV program)
    Synonym: reposição

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

reprise

  1. (Brazil) inflection of reprisar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org