encore
noun/ˈɒŋkɔː(r)/
/ˈɑːnkɔːr/
- an extra short performance given at the end of a concert or other performance; a request for this made by an audience calling out
- She played a Chopin waltz as an encore.
- The group got three encores.
Extra ExamplesTopics Musicc2- He took several encores before the crowd finally began to leave.
- The audience called for an encore.
- The singer gave four encores.
- You'll never get an encore if you perform like that!
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + encore- do
- give
- play
- …
- as an encore
- for an encore
Word Originearly 18th cent.: French, literally ‘still, again’.Definitions on the go
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