encore

Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), probably from Late Latin in hanc hōram (“until this hour”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒŋkɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑnkɔɹ/, /ˈɑŋkɔɹ/

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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.
   • 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.

• Cerone, Creone

Probably from Late Latin in hanc hōram (“until this hour”). Compare Occitan encara, Italian ancora.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.kɔʁ/

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encore

1. still

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

   Synonym: toujours

2. more

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

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

   Synonym: davantage

3. again

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

   Synonym: à nouveau

4. (after the adverb pas) yet, not yet

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

• encore que
• encore une fois
• mais encore
• pas encore

• “encore” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• coréen, Coréen
• cornée
• écorne, écorné