reciter

C1 Topic:Communication
US /ɹɪˈsaɪtɚ/ UK /ɹɪˈsaɪtə/
noun Freq #178114

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a person who recites a poem, speech, or other text aloud, often from memory

    Each reciter performed a poem without looking at the page.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a person who recites a... declaimerperformerspeaker
Word family
Forms reciters
Related forms reciterecitalrecitation

Etymology

Formed from recite + the agent suffix -er. Recite comes from Latin recitare ("read aloud; repeat from memory"), built from re- + citare ("call forth").

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