orchestra

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.kɪs.tɹə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.kəs.tɹə/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈoɹ.kɪs.tɹə/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈoɹ.kəs.tɹə/
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• California: /ˈoɹ.kɪs.tɹə/
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• California: /ˈoɹ.kəs.tɹə/
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)kɪstɹə
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• CMU ARPABET: AO1 R K AH0 S T R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin orchēstra, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra), from ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai, “to dance”) + -τρᾰ (-tră, “a suffix used to form instrument nouns (pl.)”).

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: orkes — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Albanian: orkestër — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Southern Altai: оркестр (orkestr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Arabic: أُورْكِسْتْرَا (ʔōrkistrā) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Armenian: նվագախումբ (nvagaxumb) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Azerbaijani: orkestr — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Basque: orkestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Belarusian: арке́стр (arkjéstr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Bengali: অর্কেস্ট্রা (orkesṭra) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Bengali: বাদকদল (badkodol) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Bulgarian: орке́стър (orkéstǎr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Burmese: သံစုံတီးဝိုင်း (samcumti:wuing:) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Buryat: оркестр (orkjestr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Catalan: orquestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Chinese Mandarin: 樂團 /乐团 (yuètuán) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Chinese Mandarin: 樂隊 /乐队 (yuèduì) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Chinese Mandarin: 管弦樂團 /管弦乐团 (guǎnxián yuètuán) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Chinese Mandarin: 管弦樂隊 /管弦乐队 (guǎnxián yuèduì) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Czech: orchestr — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Danish: orkester — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Dutch: orkest — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Esperanto: orkestro — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Estonian: orkester — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Finnish: orkesteri — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• French: orchestre — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Galician: orquestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Georgian: ორკესტრი (orḳesṭri) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• German: Orchester — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Greek: ορχήστρα (orchístra) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Greenlandic: nipilersortut — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Hawaiian: hui hoʻokani pila — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Hebrew: תזמורת — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Hebrew: תִּזְמֹרֶת (ʾtizmoret) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Hindi: बाजा (bājā) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Hindi: ऑर्केस्ट्रा (ŏrkesṭrā) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Hindi: आर्केस्ट्रा (ārkesṭrā) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Hindi: वाद्यवृंद (vādyavŕnd) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Hindi: वृंदवादन (vŕndvādan) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Hungarian: zenekar — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Icelandic: hljómsveit — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Icelandic: orkestur — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Indonesian: orkestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Indonesian: orkes — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Irish: ceolfhoireann — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Italian: orchestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Japanese: オーケストラ (ōkesutora) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Kalmyk: оркестр (orkestr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Kazakh: оркестр (orkestr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Khmer: តុរិយាង្គ (toriyaang) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Khmer: ពិផាត (piphaat) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Korean: 오케스트라 (okeseuteura) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Kyrgyz: оркестр (orkestr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Lao: ດຸລິຍາງ (du li nyāng) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Lao: ຕຸລິຍາງ (tu li nyāng) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Lao: ມະໂຫລີ (ma l) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Lao: ມະໂຫຣີ (ma r) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Lao: ປີ່ພາດ (pī phāt) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Latvian: orķestris — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Lithuanian: orkestras — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Macedonian: оркестар (orkestar) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Malay: orkestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Maltese: orkestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Māori: tira puoro — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Māori: rāngai puoro — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Māori: tira pūoru — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Mongolian: найрал хөгжим (najral xögžim) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Norman: orchestre — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Norwegian Bokmål: orkester — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Norwegian Nynorsk: orkester — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Iranian Persian: اُرْکِسْتْر (orkestr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Polish: orkiestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Portuguese: orquestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Romanian: orchestră — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Russian: орке́стр (orkéstr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀ркестар — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Serbo-Croatian: òrkestar — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Slovak: orchester — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Slovene: orkester — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Spanish: orquesta — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Spanish: orquestra (disused) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Swedish: orkester — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Tagalog: orkestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Tajik: оркестр (orkestr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Thai: ออร์เคสตรา (ɔɔ-kées-dtrâa) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Turkish: orkestra — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Turkmen: orkestr — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Tuvan: оркестр (orkestr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Tuvan: хөгжүм (xögjüm) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Ukrainian: орке́стр (orkéstr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Urdu: آرْکِسْٹْرا (ārkisṭrā) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Uzbek: orkestr — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Vietnamese: dàn nhạc — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Welsh: cerddorfa — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Yakut: аркыастыр (arkïastïr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Yakut: оркестр (orkestr) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Yiddish: אָרקעסטער (orkester) — large group of musicians who play together on various instruments
• Danish: orchestra — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Dutch: orkestra — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Finnish: orkestra — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Finnish: orkesteri — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• French: orchestre — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Greek: θυμέλη (thyméli) — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Greek: ορχήστρα (orchístra) — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Norman: orchestre — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Polish: orchestra — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Portuguese: orquestra — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Spanish: orquestra (disused) — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Spanish: orquesta — semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient theatres
• Danish: orkestergrav — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• Dutch: orkestbak — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• Finnish: orkesterimonttu — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• French: orchestre — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• German: Orchestergraben — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• Greek: ορχήστρα (orchístra) — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• Norman: orchestre — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• Polish: orkiestra — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• Portuguese: orquestra — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• Russian: оркестро́вая я́ма (orkestróvaja jáma) — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• Spanish: orquestra (disused) — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit
• Spanish: orquesta — the area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit