Definition of "re" []

• Music The second tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio. (noun)
• In reference to; in the case of; concerning. (preposition)

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• "October 3, 2009 at 7:36 pm mi fa mi re ～do～ re ～～mi so fa mi re～ fa～～～～♪"
• "Indians lived thousands of miles on every side from the sea, and had never seen it, yet they talked of the _pobbo mae re u_ -- the immense water; (_pobbo_, water; _mae_, great; _re_, the; _u_, an expression of magnification such as our _oh_)."
• "Often have we occasion to behold great and afflicting re* verses in the external circumstances of opulent families, and miserable are they who have not been taught with virtuous equanimity to bear them, or who liave no re - sources in their own faculties, bodily, or mental, to apply them to other means of subsistence."