noun ·Moderate ·High school level
This entry combines structured lexical data with WordToolSet review checks. Definitions, examples, synonyms, and usage notes may come from different source tables, so the page is designed to show evidence from more than one angle before you rely on "rehearsal" in a final draft.
If a word has several senses, prefer the sense that matches your sentence's grammar and surrounding context. A correct definition can still be the wrong choice when the sentence needs a different register, emphasis, or level of specificity.
Read the first definition as a starting point, then check the example, synonyms, and part of speech before treating "rehearsal" as the right word for your sentence.
If your draft is formal, technical, persuasive, or sensitive, compare "rehearsal" with a nearby alternative so the final choice matches both meaning and reader expectation.
Check whether "rehearsal" is acting as noun in your sentence. A definition is only useful when the grammar matches the way the word is being used.
Compare it with "dry run" and other nearby choices to see whether the sentence needs a softer, stronger, or more familiar word.
Use the example sentence below as an evidence check, then read your own sentence out loud to catch tone or rhythm problems.
Review note: Definition pages are checked for source coverage, sentence evidence, synonym support, and editorial insight before they are treated as approval-ready pages. If the evidence is too thin, the page remains available to users but is kept out of the approval-facing indexed inventory.
Before publishing a sentence with "rehearsal", ask whether the word helps the reader understand the idea faster. A precise word should reduce confusion, not simply make the sentence look more polished.
When the definition, synonym evidence, and example context point in the same direction, the word is usually a safer choice. When they conflict, revise the sentence or choose a clearer alternative.
"After modifications had been effected by the builders, a rehearsal of electric operation was held on September 17. A complete day's timetable was run through and apparently all went well, except for insulator trouble with the overhead wires near Anniesland; a further rehearsal was held on the following Sunday."
"The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen."
"The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story."
"After a ten-minute break, we resumed our rehearsal."
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.
Common synonyms include: dry run, account, accounts, apprenticeship, audition, basic training.
After a ten-minute break, we resumed our rehearsal.
Pronounced /ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/.
From Middle English rehercel, rehersail, rehersall, from rehersen and apparently partly Middle French rehercel. By surface analysis, rehearse + -al.