recount
/ɹɪˈkaʊnt/ noun, verb
Forms recounts recounting recounted
- noun Narration, account, description, rendering.
- verb To tell; narrate; to relate in detail. “The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.”
- verb (dated) To rehearse; to enumerate. “to recount one's blessings”
- noun A counting again, as of votes.
- verb To count again.
Synonyms
Etymology
From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To count or reckon again.
- noun A counting again, as of votes.
- verb To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings. Dryden.
Etymology [Pref. re- + count.]
Etymology [F. raconter to relate, to recount; pref. re- again + ad.) + conter to relate. See Count, v.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “recount”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details