encore
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/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
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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
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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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A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
“The encores were numerous.”
intj
- Please perform again!
verb
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(transitive)To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
“to encore a performer”
“to encore a song”
- (intransitive)To call for an encore.
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(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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