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Definition of recount 1 noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

recount1

noun
 
/rɪˈkaʊnt/
 
/rɪˈkaʊnt/
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  1. an act of telling somebody about something, especially something that you have experienced
    • By the time we got home, I had finished my recount of the events.
    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old Northern French reconter ‘tell again’, based on Old French counter, from the verb computare ‘calculate’, from com- ‘together’ + putare ‘to settle (an account)’.
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