encore

English

"Encore" message during the show Monty Python Live (Mostly) in 2014.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: en‧core

Noun

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.

Translations

brief extra performance after the main performance is complete

• Albanian: bis (sq) m
• Bulgarian: бис m (bis)
• Catalan: bis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安可 (zh) (ānkě), 安哥 (zh) (āngē), 恩可 (ēnkě)

• Czech: přídavek (cs) m
• Dutch: toegift (nl) f, bisnummer n
• Estonian: lisapala
• Finnish: encore (fi), ylimääräinen numero
• French: bis (fr) m
• German: Zugabe (de) f
• Hebrew: הַדְרָן (he) m (hadrán)
• Hungarian: ráadás (hu)
• Italian: bis (it) m
• Japanese: アンコール (ankōru)
• Korean: 앙코르 (ko) (angkoreu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dubare (ku)

• Lithuanian: bisas m
• Manx: aagherrym m
• Maori: turuki, turukitanga
• Norwegian: ekstranummer n
• Polish: bis (pl) m
• Portuguese: bis (pt) m
• Romani: májoprécsunél
• Romanian: bis (ro) n
• Russian: биси́рование f (bisírovanije), исполне́ние на бис f (ispolnénije na bis)
• Scottish Gaelic: tuilleadh m, ath-ghairm f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: би̏с m

  Roman: bȉs (sh) m

• Spanish: bis (es) m
• Swedish: extranummer (sv) n
• Tagalog: pag-ulit
• Thai: อังกอร์ (xngkxr)
• Vietnamese: bài hát lại, điệu múa lại

a call for a repeat performance

• Catalan: bis (ca) m
• French: bis (fr) m, rappel (fr) m
• Greek: πρόσκληση (el) f (prósklisi)
• Portuguese: bis (pt) m
• Romanian: bis (ro) n
• Russian: вы́зов на бис m (výzov na bis)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: би̏с m

  Roman: bȉs (sh) m

Interjection

encore!

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

Translations

please perform again

• Albanian: bis! (sq)
• Bulgarian: бис! (bis!)
• Esperanto: bis! (eo)
• French: bis! (fr)
• German: Zugabe! (de), da capo! (de)
• Hungarian: vissza! (hu)
• Ido: bis! (io)
• Italian: bis! (it)
• Japanese: アンコール！ (ankōru!)
• Lithuanian: pakartot!
• Manx: reesht!
• Ngarrindjeri: kay hey!
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mere! (no)

• Persian: دوباره! (fa) (dobâre!)
• Polish: bis! (pl)
• Portuguese: bis! (pt)
• Romanian: bis! (ro)
• Russian: бис! (ru) (bis!)
• Spanish: ¡otra!, ¡bis!
• Telugu: శాబాసు! (śābāsu!), భళిర! (bhaḷira!), భళీ! (bhaḷī!)
• Turkish: bir daha! (tr), (colloquially) bi daha!
• Vietnamese: nữa! (vi), hát lại!, múa lại!

Verb

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.

Translations

to call for an encore

• French: bisser (fr)
• Polish: bisować impf

to perform an encore

• French: bisser (fr)
• Polish: bisować impf

Further reading

• encore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cerone, Creone

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.kɔʁ/

• Audio (France)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔʁ

Adverb

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. (after the adverb pas) yet, not yet

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

Derived terms

• encore et encore
• encore et toujours
• encore heureux
• encore que
• encore une fois
• et encore
• et puis quoi encore
• mais encore
• pas encore
• passe encore
• quoi encore

 

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• coréen, Coréen
• cornée
• écorne, écorné

Galician

Verb

encore

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