encore

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɒŋkɔː/(UK)
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/ˈɒŋkɔː/(UK) · /ˈɒ̃kɔː/(UK) · /ˈɑnkoɹ/(US) · /ˈɑŋkoɹ/(US)

Definition of encore

6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
    “To play an encore.”
    “Can I get an encore? We want more!”
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noun

  1. A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
    “To play an encore.”
    “Can I get an encore? We want more!”
  2. A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
    “The encores were numerous.”

intj

  1. Please perform again!

verb

  1. (transitive)To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
    “to encore a performer”
    “to encore a song”
  2. (intransitive)To call for an encore.
  3. (intransitive)To perform an encore.
    “In youth we encore the sentiment, 'Oh, bless my country, Heaven! he said, and died:' but, as we advance in life, we think, 'How weak it is to pity Cato's case, Who might have lived, and had a handsome place!'”
    “They encored with a cover of the Beatles' “Blackbird,” “The Bigger You Love” in 1970, and “Ha Ha Ha” in early '71.”
    “Truly unbelievable. Left us all gasping for breath, and wanting more. I think they encored twice, but twenty encores would have been too few.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.

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