Added 9 October 2026
rehearsal
/ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/ noun
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about rehearsal at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- 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.
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A preparatory activity analogous to a rehearsal (sense 1).
The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen.
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The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.
The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.
Origin
From Middle English rehercel, rehersail, rehersall, from rehersen and apparently partly Middle French rehercel. By surface analysis, rehearse + -al.
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