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The definition of a rehearsal is a practice session or practice performance done prior to a real event or before viewing by an audience.

(noun)

When actors who are putting on a play get together every day to go over their lines and plan out how the play will be performed, these practice sessions are an example of a rehearsal.

See rehearsal in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the act of rehearsing, reciting, or recounting: a rehearsal of her troubles
a drilling or repeating for practice before future performance
1. a practice performance of a play, concert, etc., or of part of it, in preparation for a public or formal performance
2. any practice, exercise, or drill; trial

Origin: ME rehersaille: see rehearse & -al

See rehearsal in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun