recite
verb (used with object)
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner.
reciter
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a word derived from
recite.
Example Sentences
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It began with Childs, who was dancer, choreographer and reciter in Glass’ “Einstein on the Beach,” sharing excerpts from that seminal Glass/Wilson music theater masterpiece.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Most Muslims follow a tradition of having a reciter read the entire Koran to the community during Ramadan, one part per night.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2021
Byrne recalls his mother, a reciter of poetry and old Victorian songs, a lover of language, a dispenser of the Irish folk wisdom known in Gaelic as “Seanfhocail,” a woman consumed by housework and child-rearing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021
Showing the face of the reciter doesn’t quite seem to rise to the level of “necessary.”
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2017
“Say ‘Robert of Lincoln’?” she begged Ethel Brown, who was the Club’s reciter, “and then we’ll go home and have some cocoa and cookies.”
From Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
