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rehearsal

/ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.
  2. A preparatory activity analogous to a rehearsal (sense 1).
  3. The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English rehercel, rehersail, rehersall, from rehersen and apparently partly Middle French rehercel. By surface analysis, rehearse + -al.

  1. rehercel(frm)
  2. rehercel(enm)
  3. rehearsal (English)
  4. Relations: inh, der

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