encore

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈɒŋkɔː/ / /ˈɒ̃kɔː/ / /ˈɑnkoɹ/

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

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

A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
“To play an encore.”
“Can I get an encore? We want more!”
A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
“The encores were numerous.”

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

To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
“to encore a performer”
“to encore a song”
To call for an encore.
To perform an encore.
“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!'”
“They encored with a cover of the Beatles' “Blackbird,” “The Bigger You Love” in 1970, and “Ha Ha Ha” in early '71.”