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Meaning 1
Please perform again!
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
encore
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UK: /ˈɒŋkɔː/
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UK: /ˈɒ̃kɔː/
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US: /ˈɑnkoɹ/
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US: /ˈɑŋkoɹ/
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CMU ARPABET: AA1 N K AO2 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- To play an encore.
- Can I get an encore? We want more!
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The encores were numerous.
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verb
Meaning 4
To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to encore a performer
- to encore a song
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verb
Meaning 5
To call for an encore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To perform an encore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 7
an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: performance
verb
Meaning 8
request an encore, from a performer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: request, bespeak, call for, quest
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.
Across languages
Translations
88 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: bis! — please perform again
- Bulgarian: бис! (bis!) — please perform again
- Esperanto: bis! — please perform again
- French: bis! — please perform again
- German: Zugabe! — please perform again
- German: da capo! — please perform again
- Hungarian: vissza! — please perform again
- Ido: bis! — please perform again
- Italian: bis! — please perform again
- Japanese: アンコール! (ankōru!) — please perform again
- Korean: 앵콜! (aengkol!) — please perform again
- Lithuanian: pakartot! — please perform again
- Manx: reesht! — please perform again
- Ngarrindjeri: kay hey! — please perform again
- Norwegian Bokmål: mere! — please perform again
- Persian: دوباره! (dobâre!) — please perform again
- Polish: bis! — please perform again
- Portuguese: bis! — please perform again
- Romanian: bis! — please perform again
- Russian: бис! (bis!) — please perform again
- Scottish Gaelic: a-rithist! — please perform again
- Spanish: ¡otra! — please perform again
- Spanish: ¡bis! — please perform again
- Telugu: శాబాసు! (śābāsu!) — please perform again
- Telugu: భళిర! (bhaḷira!) — please perform again
- Telugu: భళీ! (bhaḷī!) — please perform again
- Turkish: bir daha! — please perform again
- Turkish: bi daha! — please perform again
- Vietnamese: nữa! — please perform again
- Vietnamese: hát lại! — please perform again
- Vietnamese: múa lại! — please perform again
- Albanian: bis — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Bulgarian: бис (bis) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Catalan: bis — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Chinese Mandarin: 安可 (ānkě) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Chinese Mandarin: 安哥 (āngē) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Chinese Mandarin: 恩可 (ēnkě) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Czech: přídavek — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Dutch: toegift — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Dutch: bisnummer — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Estonian: lisapala — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Finnish: encore — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Finnish: ylimääräinen numero — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- French: bis — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- German: Zugabe — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Hebrew: הַדְרָן (hadrán) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Hungarian: ráadás — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Italian: bis — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Japanese: アンコール (ankōru) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Korean: 앙코르 (angkoreu) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Northern Kurdish: dubare — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Lithuanian: bisas — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Manx: aagherrym — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Māori: turuki — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Māori: turukitanga — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Norwegian: ekstranummer — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Polish: bis — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Portuguese: bis — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Romani: májoprécsunél — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Romanian: bis — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Russian: биси́рование (bisírovanije) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Russian: исполне́ние на бис (ispolnénije na bis) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Scottish Gaelic: tuilleadh — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Scottish Gaelic: ath-ghairm — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Serbo-Croatian: би̏с — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Serbo-Croatian: bȉs — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Spanish: bis — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Swedish: extranummer — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Tagalog: pag-ulit — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Thai: อังกอร์ (xngkxr) — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Vietnamese: bài hát lại — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Vietnamese: điệu múa lại — brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
- Catalan: bis — a call for a repeat performance
- French: bis — a call for a repeat performance
- French: rappel — a call for a repeat performance
- Greek: πρόσκληση (prósklisi) — a call for a repeat performance
- Portuguese: bis — a call for a repeat performance
- Romanian: bis — a call for a repeat performance
- Russian: вы́зов на бис (výzov na bis) — a call for a repeat performance
- Serbo-Croatian: би̏с — a call for a repeat performance
- Serbo-Croatian: bȉs — a call for a repeat performance
- French: bisser — to call for an encore
- Polish: bisować — to call for an encore
- Spanish: pedir un bis — to call for an encore
- French: bisser — to perform an encore
- Polish: bisować — to perform an encore
- Spanish: bisar — to perform an encore
- Spanish: segundar — to perform an encore
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