Dictionary

reprise en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
• (Southern-England) audio
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/

Etymology

From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.

Meanings

1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
3. A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
4. A taking by way of retaliation.
   • Your care about your banks infers a fear Of threatening floods ,and inundations near; If so, a just reprise would only be Of what the land usurped upon the sea 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
5. (in-plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
7. In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

Forms

Translations (15)

nl reprise ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · fi toisinto ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · pl repryza ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · it ripresa ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · bg реприз ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · nl herneming ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · zh 再現 /再现 ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · fi toisto ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · ru репри́за ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · es reprís (repetition) · bg репри́з ((fencing) a renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position) · es reprise (repetition) · ms repris ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · fr reprise ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme) · ms ripresa ((music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme)

reprise en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
• (Southern-England) audio
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/

Etymology

From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
   • How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2. To repeat or resume an action or a role.
   • The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
   • The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger. 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 161:
3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.

Forms

Deriveds

reprisable

Relateds

reprieve · reprisal · reprehend

Synonyms

compensate (recompense) · repeat (repeat an action) · reimburse

Translations (8)

fi uusia (to repeat or resume an action) · fi toistaa (to repeat or resume an action) · ru повторя́ть (to repeat or resume an action) · bg повто́ря (to repeat or resume an action) · nl hernemen (to repeat or resume an action) · bg повта́рям (to repeat or resume an action) · es segundar (to repeat or resume an action) · es reprisar (to repeat or resume an action)