encore
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈɒŋkɔː/, /ˈɒ̃kɔː/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈɑnkɔɹ/, /ˈɑŋkɔɹ/
Noun

encore (plural encores)

  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.
Translations
  • French: bis
  • German: Zugabe
  • Italian: bis
  • Portuguese: bis
  • Russian: биси́рование
  • Spanish: bis
Translations
  • French: bis, rappel
  • Portuguese: bis
  • Russian: вы́зов на бис
Interjection
  1. (said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!
Translations
  • German: Zugabe!, da capo!
  • Italian: bis!
  • Portuguese: bis!
  • Russian: бис!
  • Spanish: ¡otra!, ¡bis!
Verb

encore (encores, present participle encoring; past and past participle encored)

  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.
    • 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.



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