repertoire

See also: Repertoire and répertoire

English

Alternative forms

• répertoire

Etymology

Borrowed from French répertoire, from Middle French repertoire, from Late Latin repertōrium (“an inventory, list, repertory”). Doublet of repertory.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛp.ə.twɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛp.əɹ.twɑɹ/, /ˈɹɛp.ə.twɑɹ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛp.əɹtwɔːɹ/

Noun

repertoire (plural repertoires)

1. A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform or display.

   Coordinate term: (analog for fine artist) portfolio

   The conjurer expanded his repertoire with some new tricks.

   • 2026 February 8, Luis Giraldo, “Bad Bunny lyrics to know before his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show”, in CBS News‎^[2], archived from the original on 9 February 2026:

     When Bad Bunny took center stage for the 2026 Super Bowl LX halftime show on Sunday at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the Puerto Rican artist made history as the first music star with a primarily Spanish-language repertoire to do so.

2. The set of skills, abilities, experiences, etc., possessed by a person.
3. The set of vocalisations used by a bird.
4. An amount, body, or collection of something.
5. (computing) A processor's instruction set.
6. (computing) An abstract set of characters, independent of their encoding.

   ISO Latin 1 repertoire

   • 2006, Jukka K. Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 39:

     There is quite a jump from the WGL4 repertoire to the Unicode 2.0 repertoire, but there are few intermediate general purpose repertoires.

Derived terms

• immunorepertoire
• repertoreme
• subrepertoire

Translations

list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed

• Azerbaijani: repertuar sg
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 劇目 / 剧目 (zh) (jùmù)

• Czech: repertoár (cs)
• Dutch: repertoire (nl) n
• Finnish: repertuaari (fi), ohjelmisto (fi)
• French: répertoire (fr)
• German: Repertoire (de) n
• Greek: ρεπερτόριο (el) n (repertório), δραματολόγιο (el) n (dramatológio)
• Hungarian: repertoár (hu)
• Italian: repertorio (it) m
• Japanese: レパートリー (ja) (repātorī)
• Korean: 레퍼토리 (ko) (repeotori)
• Māori: kete puoro (referring to music), kete kōrero
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: repertoar n

  Nynorsk: repertoar n

• Polish: repertuar (pl) m
• Portuguese: repertório (pt) m
• Russian: репертуа́р (ru) m (repertuár)
• Spanish: repertorio (es) m
• Swedish: repertoar (sv) c
• Turkish: repertuvar (tr), dağarcık (tr)
• Ukrainian: репертуа́р (uk) m (repertuár)
• Uzbek: repertuar (uz)
• Yiddish: רעפּערטואַר m (repertuar)

set of skills possessed by a person; collection of items

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 技能庫 / 技能库

• Czech: repertoár (cs) m
• Finnish: valikoima (fi), repertuaari (fi)
• French: répertoire (fr) m
• German: Repertoire (de) n
• Italian: repertorio (it) m
• Japanese: レパートリー (ja) (repātorī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: repertoar n

  Nynorsk: repertoar n

• Polish: repertuar (pl) m
• Portuguese: repertório (pt) m
• Russian: репертуа́р (ru) m (repertuár)
• Spanish: repertorio (es)
• Turkish: repertuvar (tr), dağarcık (tr)
• Ukrainian: репертуа́р (uk) m (repertuár)

set of vocalisations used by a bird

• Polish: repertuar (pl) m

an amount, body, or collection of something

• Dutch: repertorium (nl) n
• Polish: repertuar (pl) m

See also

• character encoding
• character set

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “repertoire”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “repertoire”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French répertoire.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧per‧toi‧re

Noun

repertoire m (plural repertoires, diminutive repertoiretje n)

1. repertoire

Descendants

• → Indonesian: repertoar