encore
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
encore (plural encores)
- A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
- To play an encore.
- Can I get an encore? We want more!
- A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
- The encores were numerous.
- (said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!
- German: Zugabe!, da capo!
- Italian: bis!
- Portuguese: bis!
- Russian: бис!
- Spanish: ¡otra!, ¡bis!
encore (encores, present participle encoring; past and past participle encored)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To perform an encore.
- 2011, Bill Dahl, Motown: The Golden Years: More than 100 rare photographs (page 304)
- They encored with a cover of the Beatles' “Blackbird,” “The Bigger You Love” in 1970, and “Ha Ha Ha” in early '71.
- 2011, Smitty Herron, Music's Golden Frontier
- Truly unbelievable. Left us all gasping for breath, and wanting more. I think they encored twice, but twenty encores would have been too few.
- 2011, Bill Dahl, Motown: The Golden Years: More than 100 rare photographs (page 304)
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