Verb
Will you repeat the question?
He kept repeating the same thing over and over.
He often has to ask people to repeat themselves because he's a little deaf. Repeat after me: “I promise to do my best…”.
You are simply repeating, in slightly different words, what has been said already.
My five-year-old can repeat her favorite stories word for word. Noun
Most of the customers are repeats.
No, I don't want to watch that. It's a repeat.
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Verb
The two-minute video below shows Selena Gomez, who played the central character Alex Russo, embracing and almost longing for her past, while her brother Justin (played by David Henrie) attempts to avoid repeating it.—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2024 This may need to be repeated several times if dry weather persists.—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2024
Noun
The year began with the first presidential repeat since 1956.—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 Aug. 2024 Once the rules fully take effect, Ofcom would have the power to levy fines of as much as 10% of companies’ global annual revenues for breaches, or even jail time for individual senior managers in cases where repeat breaches occur.—Ryan Browne, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
Adjective
The Showtime team of Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Byron Scott was coming off a second straight NBA championship in 1988, having beaten the Detroit Pistons to become the league’s first repeat champ in 20 years.—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2024 Looking to become the first repeat national champion since 2007, UConn has the exact same record (25-3) through 28 games as the last back-to-back champ, Florida in ’07.—Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for repeat
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Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English repeten, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French repeter, from Old French, from Latin repetere to return to, repeat, from re- + petere to go to, seek — more at feather
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