Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Encore

Definitions: Encore

Encore

Noun

1. An extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand.

Verb

1. Request an encore, from a performer.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "encore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Encore

DomainDefinitions

19th Century Satire

A greedy theatre-goer's desire to get more than his money's worth. From the Fr. en, among, and cochon, pig,--common among pigs. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Encore

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

ENCORE

EnglishEuropean Network of Catchments organised for Research on EcosystemsN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Synonyms within Context: Encore

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Approbation

Interjection: hear hear! bully for you! well done! bravo! bravissimo! euge! macte virtute! so far so good, that's right, quite right; optime! one cheer more; may your shadow never be less! esto perpetua! long life to! viva! enviva! Godspeed! valete et plaudite! encore! bis!

Commend, belaud, praise, laud, compliment; pay a tribute, bepraise; clap the hands; applaud, cheer, acclamate, encore; panegyrize, eulogize, cry up, proner, puff; extol, extol to the skies; magnify, glorify, exalt, swell, make much of; flatter; bless, give a blessing to; have a good word for, say a good word for; speak well of, speak highly of, speak in high terms of; sing the praises of, sound the praises of, chaunt the praises of; resound the praises of; sing praises to; cheer to the echo, applaud to the echo, applaud to the very echo, cheer to the very echo.

Repetition

Adverb: repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more; ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     



Crosswords: Encore

English words defined with "encore": Encored, Encoring. (references)
Specialty definitions using "encore": anticipatory guidanceCParaOps5DomisellusMarlaisParAlflVentre-saint-Gris!. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Encore" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (afresh, again, all over again, anew, even, furthermore, once more, over, still, yet).

Top     

Modern Usage: Encore

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Tu vivras! Personne ne te prendra moi. Je t'aime, Louis. Je t'aime. Peut-tre que tu ne me crois pas, mas il y a des choses incroyables qui sont vraies. Courage, mon amour. Nous allons partir loin d'ici, et puis nous resterons toujours ensemble Si tu veux encore de moi. (Sirène du Mississippi, La; writing credit: Franois Truffaut)

Paul, I don't have time for an encore! (The Bitch; writing credit: Jackie Collins; Gerry O'Hara)

Ne me dit pas que tu as encore faim? (Douze travaux d'Astérix, Les; writing credit: René Goscinny; Albert Uderzo)

Lyrics

Et marche encore ("Humana"; performing artist: Fabian)

Meme si mon coeur est gris, moi j'aimerai encore ("I Will Love Again"; performing artist: Lara Fabian)

Movie/TV Titles

Universal Musical Featurette: The Dorsey Brothers Encore (1953)

Encore (1952)

Essaye encore! (2002)

Encore dimanche (2002)

Ultimate Encore (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: Encore

DomainTitle

References

  • Encore Acquisition Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Encore Medical Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Encore Wire Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures) (reference)

  • George and Martha Encore (reference)

  • Jacques Pepin's Kitchen: Encore With Claudine (reference)

  • Love's Encore (reference)

  • Merde Encore! (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Photo Album: Encore

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Encore un Coup de Vent. / Genty, Editeur, rue St. Jacques No. 33 Lith. de A. Cheyère.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Le bébé de vos rêves sera encore plus beau Roger Sartirana.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Le bébé de vos rêves sera encore plus beau Roger Sartirana.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

1er mars, 1871, 1er mars, 1918. En Alsace libérée les petites filles, se restreignent de bon coeur pour hâter la déliverance de l'Alsace encore annedéxe. Faites comme elles.Credit: Library of Congress.

1er mars, 1871, 1er mars, 1918. En Alsace libérée les petites filles, se restreignent de bon coeur pour hâter la déliverance de l'Alsace encore annedéxe. Faites comme elles.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Sounds Captioned with "Encore".

PlayCaption
Applaud; clap; clamor; fuss; encore; delighted; impressed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Familiar Quotations: Encore

AuthorQuotation

Boldness

De l'audace, et encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace, et la France est sauvée.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Encore

"Encore" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.55% of the time. "Encore" is used about 146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)70.55%10332,137
Noun (proper)14.38%2176,261
Lexical Verb (base form)13.7%2078,262
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.68%1339,140
Noun (common)0.68%1339,140
                    Total100.00%146N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Usage in Company Names: Encore

CountryName
USA

Encore Acquisition Co.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

Top     

Expressions: Encore

Expressions using "encore": get an encore perform as an encore. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "encore": encore-free, encore-opener.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Encore

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

encore

1,054

dj encore

139

encore starz

102

encore ticket

84

encore software

75

channel encore

52

thompson center and encore

50

adobe encore

49

encore azalea

42

encore thompson

41

music encore

41

encore invitation

39

encore studio

38

encore mowers

38

encore movie

35

adobe dvd encore

35

bank encore

34

encore cruise

34

4.5 encore

33

download encore

33
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: Encore

Language Translations for "encore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përsëritje (iterance, iteration, recapitulation, recurrence, reduplication, rehearsal, reiteration, relapse, renewal, repeat, repetition, replication), ftoj sërish në skenë, bis. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وسيم (bonny, comeliness, comely, cunning, dainty, dapper, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome, pretty), ‏إستعادة (reconquest, recuperation, restoration), ‏إستعاد (bring back, give back, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retrieve, scavenge, take), ‏ثانية مرة أخرى (anew, more, re). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

викам на бис, бис. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

再来一次. (various references)

   

Czech

  

přídavek (adjunct, allowance, bonus, grant-in-aid, supplement), opakovat (re echo, rehearse, reiterate, repeat, re-play, review). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nog eens (one more time), bis (one more time). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

bis (one more time). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

uppaftur (afresh, again, once more, one more time). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

دوباره بنوازید(درموسیقی). (various references)

   

French

  

bisser, bis. (various references)

   

German

  

zugabe (addition, allowance, bonus, extra, premium). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καλώ πάλι, πρόσκληση (bidding, call, invitation), πάλι (afresh, again, anew, anon). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לבצע ""רן, ""רן. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ráadás (admixture, extra, giveaway, long pull), újrázás. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

ulangan (quiz, repeat), lagi (again, anew, another, more). (various references)

   

Italian

  

chiedere un bis, bis (seconds). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

アンケート"紙 (encore hour, questionnaire). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アンコール . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

앙"르. (various references)

   

Manx

  

aagherrym (recall, repeal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

encoreay

   

Portuguese

  

bis (again, bis, one more time, repeat). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

repetare (iteration, monotone, recurrence, reiteration, repetition), bisa, bis (once more), încã o datã (anew, once more, over again). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бис (bis 1). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zvati na bis, bis (bis). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

una vez (ever, once, one time), repetir (echo, follow up, play back, re echo, repeat, replay, retail, retake, say again, to repeat), repetición (copy, double, echo, recurrence, recursion, repeat, repetition, replay, replication, rerun, retake), pedir la repetición de, pedir la repetición a, otra (another, other), bis (again, bis, once more). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

extranummer (special issue), ropa dakapo åt, dakaporop, dakapo (da capo), bissering, begära dakapo av. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeniden sahneye çağırmak, yeniden (afresh, again, all over, anew, re-), tezahürat yapmak (barrack, root for), tekrarlama (iteration, quotation, recap, recapitulation, recrudescence, rehash, rehearsal, reiteration, repeat, repetition, return), tekrarını istemek, tekrar çağırma, tekrar (afresh, again, all over, all over again, anew, once more, over, over again, re-, recap, recapitulation, recurrence, reiteration, repeat, repetition, review), isteriz, isteme (asking, demand, desire, requisition, wish, wishing), istek parça. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

кричати біс, виконувати на біс, виклик на біс, біс (bis, devil, fiend). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Ancestral Language Translations: Encore

LanguagePeriodTranslations
French1500-Modern

encore. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Encore

Derivations

Words beginning with "encore": encored, encores. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Encore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ancora, Ansorge, Benicor, cneorum, ecor, ecorv, ecure, Enbourne, Encafe, enchore, encofe, encor, encord, Encotel, encro, encur, encure, endora, enfor, enor, ensor, Envoro, escroe, excore, Fencote, icnore, incore, incre, Jencra, Ncore, necare, Pencareg, pencarreg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "Encore"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "encore" (pronounced Ä"nkô'r)
3-k ô' ralbacore.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Encore

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-r"

-1 letter: crone, recon.

-2 letters: cere, cero, cone, core, corn, erne, once.

-3 letters: cee, con, cor, eon, ere, ern, nee, nor, one, orc, ore, rec, ree, roc, roe.

-4 letters: en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: coenure, corneae, cozener, encoder, encored, encores, enforce, necrose.

 

+2 letters: beckoner, carotene, censored, ceremony, cheveron, choremen, cicerone, coendure, coenures, coherent, coinhere, conceder, concrete, conferee, confrere, congener, conserve, convener, converge, converse, conveyer, cornered, cozeners, cretonne, croceine, electron, encloser, encoders, enforced, enforcer, enforces, ensorcel, erection, erogenic, exocrine, fencerow, florence, necrosed, necroses, neoteric, newcomer, obscener, onscreen, overnice, rechosen, reckoned, reckoner, recoined, reconvey, renounce, seconder, trecento.

 

+3 letters: arecoline, beckoners, cannoneer, carotenes, centriole, chaperone, chernozem, cheverons, cicerones, cinereous, coarsened, coendured, coendures, coeternal, coherence, coherency, coinhered, coinheres, commencer, commender, concealer, conceders, conceiver, concenter, concerned, concerted, concierge, concreted, concretes, condemner, condenser, conferees, conferred, conferrer, confervae, confreres, congeners, congeries, connecter, conquered, consenter, conserved, conserver, conserves, contemner, contender, contester, conveners, converged, converges, conversed, converser, converses, converted, converter, conveyers, copresent, cornermen, countered, crescendo, cretonnes, croceines, decrowned, denouncer, electrons, enclosers, enclosure, encounter, encourage, endocrine, endoergic, enforcers, ensorcell, ensorcels, entrecote, erections, excretion, exergonic, exocrines, fencerows, ferrocene, florences, geomancer, merocrine, neocortex, neoterics, newcomers, noncareer, nonsecure, offscreen, overclean, precensor, precentor, recension, reception, recession, reckoners, recognise, recognize, recoinage, recombine, recommend, reconcile, recondite, reconnect, reconquer, reconvene, reconvert, reconveys, recounted, recounter, recrowned, redolence, reechoing, reenforce, refection, reinforce, rejection, rencontre, renounced, renouncer, renounces, resection, resonance, seconders, secretion, tolerance, trecentos, uncoerced, uncovered.

 

+4 letters: abhorrence, ancestored, antecessor, arecolines, arenaceous, auctioneer, benefactor, camerlengo, cannoneers, centerfold, centrioles, centromere, centrosome, ceremonial, ceremonies, changeover, chaperoned, chaperones, chernozems, cinemagoer, clinometer, clowneries, coarseness, coelentera, coenamored, coerecting, coexerting, coherences, coherently, coinferred, cointerred, commandeer, commencers, commenders, compeering, comprehend, concealers, conceivers, concenters, concertize, concierges, concretely, concretize, condemners, condensers, coneflower, confederal, conference, conferment, conferrers, congeneric, congregate, congressed, congresses, congruence, conjecture, connecters, consecrate, consenters, conservers, considered, contemners, contenders, contesters, contexture, contravene, convergent, conversely, conversers, converters, coparcener, copresents, coresident, cornerwise, cornetcies, corpulence, countermen, countersue, covenanter, covertness, crescendos, cryogenies, ctenophore, deaconries, decahedron, denouncers, documenter, echinoderm, economizer, egocentric, electroing, electronic, enclosures, encounters, encouraged, encourager, encourages, encroached, encroacher, encroaches, endergonic, endocrines, enscrolled, ensorceled, ensorcells, enterocoel, entodermic, entrecotes, erotogenic, estrogenic, excerption, excretions, execration, ferrocenes, fictioneer, florescent, geocentric, geomancers, governance, henceforth, hypocenter, incoherent, innocenter, interocean, necropoles, necropsied, necropsies, neurogenic, nonreceipt, observance, occurrence, orogenetic, overcleans, peppercorn, perception, perfection, precensors, precentors, precession, preconcert, prelection, prepotency, probenecid, proceeding, prominence, provenance, providence, pycnometer, recensions, receptions, recessions, recognised, recognises, recognized, recognizer, recognizes, recoinages, recolonize, recombined, recombines, recommence, recommends, recompense, reconceive, reconciled, reconciler, reconciles, recondense, reconnects, reconquers, reconquest, reconsider, reconvened, reconvenes, reconverts, reconveyed, reconvince, recounters, recoupment, recovering, recreation, redolences, reelection, reenforced, reenforces, refections, reflection, reinforced, reinforcer, reinforces, rejections, rencontres, rencounter, renouncers, reprobance, resections, resonances, ropedancer, secretions, tolerances, uncensored, uncoercive, uncorseted, undercover, underscore, unenforced, unescorted, unrecorded, ventricose.

 

+5 letters: abhorrences, accelerando, actinometer, amenorrheic, anchoresses, antecessors, arborescent, archenteron, areocentric, atherogenic, auctioneers, baronetcies, bedcovering, benedictory, benefactors, camerawomen, camerlengos, candlepower, catercorner, celebration, centerboard, centerfolds, centromeres, centromeric, centrosomes, cerebration, ceremonials, ceremonious, changeovers, chaperonage, chernozemic, cherrystone, chinoiserie, chloroprene, chronometer, cinemagoers, clergywomen, clinometers, coelenteron, cogenerator, coherencies, coleopteran, commandeers, comprehends, concentered, concentrate, concernment, concertedly, concertgoer, concertized, concertizes, concrescent, concretized, concretizes, concurrence, condottiere, coneflowers, confederacy, confederate, conferences, conferments, conferrable, conferrence, congenerous, congregated, congregates, congressmen, congruences, conjectured, conjecturer, conjectures, consecrated, consecrates, considerate, consigliere, consternate, contextures, contravened, contravener, contravenes, contredanse, contretemps, convergence, convergency, conversable, conversance, convertible, conveyancer, conveyorise, conveyorize, coparceners, copartnered, copresented, copresident, corecipient, coredeeming, coresidents, corkinesses, cornerstone, corninesses, corpulences, correctness, cotoneaster, counterbade, counterfeit, counterfire, countermemo, countermine, countermove, counterpane, counterplea, counterpose, counterstep, countersued, countersues, counterview, covenanters, crenelation, crescendoed, crescendoes, crookedness, crossnesses, crowdedness, ctenophores, cycloserine, cyproterone, decahedrons, decarbonate, decarbonize, decrescendo, deforcement, deprecation, dereliction, desecration, divorcement, documenters, echinoderms, econometric, economizers, egocentrics, egocentrism, eigenvector, electioneer, electronics, embryogenic, encountered, encouragers, encrimsoned, encroachers, endothermic, enforceable, enforcement, ensorceling, ensorcelled, enterococci, enterocoele, enterocoels, epeirogenic, excerptions, execrations, executioner, exorbitance, expectorant, fictioneers, florescence, fluorescein, fluorescent, forbearance, governances, greengrocer, greenockite, heterogonic, hypocenters, incoercible, incoherence, insectivore, interceptor, intercessor, intercooler, intercouple, intercourse, interjector, interlocked, interoffice, intolerance, introjected, kinetochore, mesonephric, misreckoned, necrologies, necromancer, necropoleis, neocortexes, neocortices, nephrectomy, neuroactive, neuroleptic, noncoercive, noncoherent, noncoverage, noncreative, nondirected, nonelectric, nonreactive, nonreceipts, nonrecourse, nonsecretor, obscureness, observances, occurrences, orthocenter, overbalance, overcleaned, overconcern, overconsume, overcounted, overdecking, peppercorns, perceptions, perfections, performance, persecution, plecopteran, preannounce, precensored, precessions, preconceive, preconcerts, preconquest, preelection, prelections, preluncheon, probenecids, proceedings, procurement, prominences, provenances, provenience, providences, pycnometers, reaccession, recessional, recognizers, recolonized, recolonizes, recommenced, recommences, recommended, recompensed, recompenses, reconceived, reconceives, reconcilers, recondensed, recondenses, reconditely, reconfigure, reconfirmed, reconnected, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reconquered, reconquests, reconsiders, recontacted, recontoured, reconvening, reconverted, reconveying, reconvicted, reconvinced, reconvinces, recoupments, recreations, redirection, reeducation, reelections, reencounter, reenforcing, reflections, reinfection, reinforcers, reinjection, reinoculate, reintroduce, rencounters, reobjecting, reprobances, rerecording, retroceding, rockinesses, rodenticide, ropedancers, scaremonger, schnorkeled, secondaries, smokescreen, sniperscope, stonecutter, telocentric, teratogenic, thenceforth, theocentric, thermocline, tricornered, truncheoned, ulcerogenic, unconcerned, unconquered, unconverted, uncorrected, undecorated, undercooled, underscored, underscores, unprocessed, unprotected, unrecovered, unretouched, workbenches.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Encore


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 63 6F 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -.    -.-.    ---    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01100011 01101111 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#99 &#111 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0063 006F 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

398069818471

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Sounds
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Company Usage
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.