repeat

English

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology

From Old French repeter, from Latin repetō.

Verb

repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)

1. (transitive) or (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).

   The scientists repeat the experiment in order to confirm the result.

Related terms

• repeatedly
• repetition
• repetitive
• repeat oneself

Translations

do or say again

Arabic: كرر (ar) (kárrara), أعاد (ar) (aʻāda) Armenian: կրկնել (hy) (krknel) Belarusian: паўтараць (be) (paŭtarác') Bulgarian: повтарям (bg) (povtarjam) Catalan: repetir (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 重複 (cmn), 重复 (cmn) (chóngfù) Czech: opakovat (cs) Danish: gentage (da), repetere (da) Dutch: herhalen (nl) Esperanto: ripeti (eo) Finnish: toistaa (fi) French: répéter (fr) German: wiederholen (de) Hindi: दोहराना (hi) (dōhrānā), फिर से कहना (hi) (phir sē kahnā) Hungarian: megismétel (hu) Icelandic: endurtaka (is) Indonesian: mengulang Italian: ripetere (it)

Japanese: 繰り返す (ja) (くりかえす, kurikaesu) Korean: 되풀이하다 (ko) (doepuri-hada), 반복하다 (ko) (banbok-hada) Latin: repeto (la), itero (la) Persian: تکرار شدن (fa) Polish: powtarzać (pl) Portuguese: repetir (pt) Russian: повторять (ru) (povtorját’) impf., повторить (ru) (povtorít’) pf. Serbo-Croatian: поно̀вити (sh), ponòviti (sh) Slovak: opakovať (sk) Slovene: ponoviti (sl) Spanish: repetir (es) Swedish: repetera, upprepa Thai: ทำซ้ำ (th) (tam sám) Turkish: tekrarlamak (tr), yinelemek (tr), tekrar etmek (tr) Ukrainian: повторювати (uk) (povtórjuvaty) Urdu: دوہرانا (ur) (dōhrānā) Vietnamese: nhắc lại (vi) Welsh: ailadrodd (cy)

Noun

repeat (plural repeats)

1. An iteration; a repetition.

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

2. A rerun, something that has been done before.

See also

• redundant

Anagrams

• retape