Definition of "reprise" in English

noun

1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.

2. (music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.

3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.

4. A taking by way of retaliation.

5. (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.

6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

7. (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.

2. To repeat or resume an action or a role.

   • The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.

3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.