reprise
- Usually reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
- Music.
- a repetition.
- a return to the first theme or subject.
- to execute a repetition of; repeat: They reprised the elaborate dance number in the third act.
Origin of reprise
Related Words for reprised
restate, renew, repeat, echo, recite, rehash, reiterate, replay, regain, recover, rescue, deliver, free, redeem, extricate, release, manumit, save, liberate, emancipateExamples from the Web for reprised
Contemporary Examples of reprised
He reprised a joke about having vowed, “When this show stops being fun, I will retire—10 years later.”
J-Fal and the Roots reprised their classroom-instruments shtick with Robin Thicke Thursday to sing his hit, ‘Blurred Lines.’
Brian Williams Does Marky Mark, NASA’s Scary Map & More Viral VideosThe Daily Beast Video
August 3, 2013
President Obama and Senator John McCain reprised their rivalry at the health-care summit on Thursday.
reprise
- the repeating of an earlier theme
- to repeat (an earlier theme)
Word Origin for reprise
Word Origin and History for reprised
reprise
late 14c., "yearly deduction from charges upon a manor or estate," from Old French reprise "act of taking back" (13c.), fem. of repris, past participle of reprendre "take back," from Latin reprendere, earlier reprehendere, earlier reprehendere (see reprehend). Meaning "resumption of an action" is from 1680s. Musical sense is from 1879.
reprise
early 15c., from Old French repris, past participle of reprendre (see reprise (v.)).