orchestre

See also: orchestré

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

orchestre (plural orchestres)

1. Obsolete form of orchestra.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “orchestre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Rochester, Schroeter, hectorers

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra). The word was feminine (like its etymon) until the 18th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kɛstʁ/

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Noun

orchestre m (plural orchestres)

1. orchestra, band
2. stalls (of cinema or theatre)

Further reading

• “orchestre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

orchestre f

1. plural of orchestra

Anagrams

• trescherò

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin orchēstra, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra), from ὀρχοῦμαι (orkhoûmai, “to dance”).

Noun

orchestre m (plural orchestres)

1. (Jersey) orchestra

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Romanian

Noun

orchestre f pl

1. plural of orchestră