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English noun: repetition | |||
| 1. | repetition (event) an event that repeats | ||
| Samples | The events today were a repeat of yesterday's. | ||
| Synonyms | repeat | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | periodic event, recurrent event | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cycle, recurrence, rematch, replay, return, sequence | ||
| 2. | repetition (act) the act of doing or performing again | ||
| Synonyms | repeating | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | continuance, continuation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | action replay, copying, echolalia, instant replay, iteration, redundancy, reduplication, reiteration, renewal, replay, replication | ||
| 3. | repetition (communication) the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rhetorical device | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | anadiplosis, anaphora, anaphora, epanalepsis, epanaphora, epanodos, epiphora, epistrophe, gemination, ploce, polyptoton, reduplication, symploce | ||
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