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.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
The bold but simple design is replicated on the shorts, with the flag pattern repeated on the right thigh and the Wizards’ familiar Washington Monument-inside-a-basketball logo on the left thigh.—Scott Allen, Washington Post, 21 June 2024 While the split between brands encouraging repeat purchases on their own sites and in their own stores and brands using third parties to help sell one-time purchases to new customers, there may be a common ground.—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 21 June 2024
Noun
Each candidate’s microphone will be silenced while the other is speaking, in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the 2020 debate, when Trump constantly interrupted Biden and the moderators.—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024 Anxious to avoid a repeat of the September 2022 draft of 300,000 reservists that prompted a spike in public anxiety over the war, the Kremlin is relying instead on generous payments to persuade men to join the army.—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 22 June 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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