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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒŋkɔː/, /ˈɒ̃kɔː/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑnkɔɹ/, /ˈɑŋkɔɹ/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: en‧core
Adverb[edit]
encore (not comparable)
- (conjunctive, hapax) In addition to what has been said; furthermore; additionally.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 181:
- Encore, attachments thwarted by circumstance, or such as died the natural death of absence—these would be not a few; to say nothing of some half-dozen grand passions.
Noun[edit]
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.
Translations[edit]
brief extra performance after the main performance is complete
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a call for a repeat performance
Interjection[edit]
encore!
- (said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!
Translations[edit]
please perform again
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Verb[edit]
encore (third-person singular simple present encores, present participle encoring, simple 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.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Allusion to the Past”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 49:
- 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!'
- 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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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Old French ancor, from Late Latin in hanc hōram (“until this hour”). Compare Catalan and Occitan encara, Italian ancora.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
encore
- still
- Synonym: toujours
- Êtes-vous encore là? ― Are you still there?
- more
- Synonym: davantage
- Voulez-vous encore du pain ? ― Would you like more bread?
- Tu en veux encore? ― Do you want some more?
- again
- Synonym: à nouveau
- Écris-le encore une fois! ― Write it once again!
- (after the adverb pas) yet, not yet
- Je n'ai pas encore fini. ― I haven't finished yet.
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Further reading[edit]
- “encore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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