Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who recites or rehearses; a narrator or declaimer, especially of what has been previously written or told.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.

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  • noun one who recites

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who recites from memory

Etymologies

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recite +‎ -er

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Examples

  • And one can see what he means, yet the finished piece is often loud, tense and urgent, as Adjoa Andoh gallantly holds the action together in multiple roles – as a medical commentator who harangues us on the way failing memory manifests itself, as the old men's cook, explaining their week in uneaten meals and as a reciter of Ovid, pronouncing upon Time.

    Or You Could Kiss Me – review Kate Kellaway 2010

  • Aside from being an expert prayer leader and reciter of Quranic verses, there's nothing particularly impressive about him, says Pakistani journalist and Taliban expert Rahimullah Yusufzai.

    ‘This Mullah Omar Show’ 2010

  • The separate line written for the ‘reciter’ and its musical accompaniment were abandoned.

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • Another renowned performer who emerged from the Yiddish theater was Berta Singerman, who became the premier reciter of poems in the Americas.

    Argentina: Jewish Women. 2009

  • She first appeared on stage at the Komödie theater in 1929 with the reciter Ernst Ceiss.

    Cilli Wang. 2009

  • The Web site of Toyotake Sakihodayu, a 34-year-old popular bunraku reciter, shows maps of theaters in Osaka and Tokyo where you can pick a seat and make a reservation.

    Puppet Love Aika Nanao 2009

  • Consequently, it is a call for every reciter of this ziyara to spiritually prepare himself to appreciate this reality in order to be able to naturally express the same.

    Archive 2008-02-01 mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008

  • Consequently, it is a call for every reciter of this ziyara to spiritually prepare himself to appreciate this reality in order to be able to naturally express the same.

    The Ecstatic Dimension of Karbala [Part 2] mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008

  • “Kursi,” a word of many meanings; here it would allure to the square crate-like seat of palm-fronds used by the Ráwi or public reciter of tales when he is not pacing about the coffee-house.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In explaining the word "hallowed," Weeramantry says, "When the Prayer says 'hallowed' be thy name, it is saying that the reciter will treat God as hallowed."

    Chris Rodda: S.C. Legislature: Lord's Prayer a Legal Document 2008

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