Refrain

Noun CEFR C2 Standard

ɹɪˈfɹeɪn

Definitions

The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying.
broadly

Equivalents

Españolabstenerse de comedirse contenerenfrenarse de estribillo refrenarse de retenerse

Françaisrefrain s'abstenir se retenir

Deutschabsehen Abstand nehmen KehrreimRefrain sich enthalten sich zurückhalten Unterlassen Verzichten

38 more languages

العربيةإمتنع امتنع قرارلازمة

Azərbaycan dilinəqərat

Българскиприпев

Bosanskipripev pripjev refrenŠtef припев припјев рефрен

Catalàtornada

Češtinarefrén upustit vyhnout sevyvarovat se zdržet se

Ελληνικάεπωδός ρεφρέν

Suomikertauma kertosäe kertsiloppukerto pidättäytyä refrengi

Gàidhligsèist

עבריתפזמון

Hrvatskipripev pripjev refrenŠtef припев припјев рефрен

Հայերենկրկներգ

Íslenskastef

Italianocontenersi frenarsi refrainritornello

日本語リフレーン繰り返し句

ქართულირეფრენი

Қазақ тіліқайырма

ភាសាខ្មែរឆា

한국어리프레인 후렴

Македонскирефрен

Nederlandsrefrein zich niet inlaten met

Polskipowstrzymać się powstrzymywać się refren

Portuguêsabster-se refrão

Românărefren

Русскийприпев рефре́н

Српскиpripev pripjev refrenŠtef припев припјев рефрен

Svenskarefräng

ไทยสร้อย เวรมณี

Tagalogpabini pabinian

Türkçenakarat

Українськапри́спів рефрен

Tiếng Việtđiệp khúc

Examples

“For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort ⟳ of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
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See also

Refrained refrainer Refraining refrainment Refrains reframe

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