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Definitions: Encore |
EncoreNoun1. An extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand. Verb1. 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) |
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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. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ENCORE | English | European Network of Catchments organised for Research on Ecosystems | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Encore |
| English words defined with "encore": Encored, Encoring. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "encore": anticipatory guidance ♦ CParaOps5 ♦ Domisellus ♦ Marlais ♦ ParAlfl ♦ Ventre-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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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![]() | 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. | ||
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| Applaud; clap; clamor; fuss; encore; delighted; impressed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70.55% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.38% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.7% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 146 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Encore Acquisition Co. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 bis (again, bis, one more time, repeat). (various references) repetare (iteration, monotone, recurrence, reiteration, repetition), bisa, bis (once more), încã o datã (anew, once more, over again). (various references) бис (bis 1). (various references) zvati na bis, bis (bis). (various references) 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) extranummer (special issue), ropa dakapo åt, dakaporop, dakapo (da capo), bissering, begära dakapo av. (various references) 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) кричати біс, виконувати на біс, виклик на біс, біс (bis, devil, fiend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | encore. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "encore": encored, encores. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "encore" (pronounced Ä"nkô'r) |
| 3 | -k ô' r | albacore. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 63 6F 72 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100011 01101111 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n c o r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0063 006F 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398069818471 |
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