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dress rehearsal en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume, in order to test all aspects of the production by closely reproducing the actual conditions of a performance.
   • We've got three dress rehearsals before the opening night to prepare ourselves for any potential technical issues.
2. The final rehearsal before a performance, whether or not costumes or performance dress are worn.
3. (broadly) Any complex activity that serves to prepare for a more important iteration of it later.
   • And if anybody thinks that that was not a dress rehearsal for what they may try to attempt in January of 2025, I’m sorry to say, but I think that’s a very naïve assumption. 2024 April 12, Shane Goldmacher, quoting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “Ocasio-Cortez Never Steered Money to a Key Arm of Her Party. Until Now.”, in The New York Times:
   • Sunday, November 6, was spent in a second full-scale dress rehearsal of the complete weekday electric timetable, [...] during which the public were invited to make their first trial of the trains—and 15,000 did so. 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 712:
   • Although the train derailment ended up not being very serious, the emergency services' response served as a dress rehearsal in case of a much worse disaster.

Forms

Coordinates

runthrough · walk-through · walkthrough · dry run · run-through

Hypernyms

rehearsal

Translations (30)

sv genrep (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · fi kenraali (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · fi pukuharjoitus (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · cs generálka (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · ru генера́льная репети́ция (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · no generalprøve (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · id gladi bersih (final rehearsal) · ja ゲネプロ (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · fi kenraaliharjoitus (final rehearsal) · da generalprøve (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · is aðalæfing (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · uk генеральна репетиція (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · de Generalprobe (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · pt ensaio geral (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · nn generalprøve (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · fi kenraaliharjoitus (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · nb generalprøve (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · es ensayo general (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · fr répétition générale (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · fo aðalroynd (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · pl próba generalna (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · hu főpróba (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · cs generální zkouška (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · de Hauptprobe (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · nl generale repetitie (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · sv generalrepetition (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · mi whakaharatau whanotū (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · id gladi bersih (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · ca assaig general (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume) · cmn 彩排 (rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume)