encore

Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒŋkɔː/, /ˈɒ̃kɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑnkoɹ/, /ˈɑŋkoɹ/

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• Hyphenation: en‧core

encore (plural encores)

1. A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.

   To play an encore.

   Can I get an encore? We want more!

2. A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.

   The encores were numerous.

encore!

1. (said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!

encore (third-person singular simple present encores, present participle encoring, simple past and past participle encored)

1. (transitive) To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.

   to encore a performer

   to encore a song

2. (intransitive) To call for an encore.
3. (intransitive) To perform an encore.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Allusion to the Past”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 49:

     In youth we encore the sentiment, 'Oh, bless my country, Heaven! he said, and died:' but, as we advance in life, we think, 'How weak it is to pity Cato's case, Who might have lived, and had a handsome place!'

   • 2011, Bill Dahl, Motown: The Golden Years: More than 100 rare photographs, page 304:

     They encored with a cover of the Beatles' “Blackbird,” “The Bigger You Love” in 1970, and “Ha Ha Ha” in early '71.

   • 2011, Smitty Herron, Music's Golden Frontier:

     Truly unbelievable. Left us all gasping for breath, and wanting more. I think they encored twice, but twenty encores would have been too few.

• encore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Cerone, Creone

Probably from Old French ancor, from Late Latin in hanc hōram (“until this hour”). Compare Catalan and Occitan encara, Italian ancora. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from German noch (adverb).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.kɔʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ

encore

1. still

   Synonym: toujours

   Êtes-vous encore là? ― Are you still there?

2. more

   Synonym: davantage

   Voulez-vous encore du pain ? ― Would you like more bread?

   Tu en veux encore? ― Do you want some more?

3. again

   Synonym: à nouveau

   Écris-le encore une fois! ― Write it once again!

4. (with a negative) (not) yet; (never) before

   Je n'ai pas encore fini. ― I haven't finished yet.

   • 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter X, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 42:

     Comment peut-il me reconnaître puisqu'il ne m'a encore jamais vu !

     How could he recognize me when he had never seen me before?

6. (Alsace) again (following a question)

   Synonym: déjà

• → English: encore
• → Esperanto: ankoraŭ (partly)
• Haitian Creole: ankò

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

• coréen, Coréen
• cornée
• écorne, écorné

encore

1. inflection of encorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative