programme
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊɡɹæm/' IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊɡɹəm/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) - Homophone: program
- Hyphenation: pro‧gramme
Noun edit
programme (plural programmes)
- Britain, New Zealand, and India standard spelling of program.
- Our programme for today’s exercise class includes swimming and jogging.
- The programme about Greek architecture starts at 9:00 on Channel 4.
- ITEC is the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.
- 1961, New Scientist, volume 9, number 226, page 679:
- Thus once a computer programme has been prepared, vastly different conditions can be inserted and experimented with at the expense of a few hours of computer time.
- (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of program (“computer program”)
Usage notes edit
See usage notes at program.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
programme — see program
Verb edit
programme (third-person singular simple present programmes, present participle programming, simple past and past participle programmed)
Derived terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin programma, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
programme m (plural programmes)
- a program (set of structured activities)
- a program (leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity)
- a program (particular mindset or method of doing things)
- (computing) a program (item of software; a computer program)
- Synonym: logiciel
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: program
- → Polish: program
- → Romanian: program
- → Ottoman Turkish: پروغرام (program)
- Turkish: program
Verb edit
programme
- inflection of programmer:
Further reading edit
- “programme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”).
Noun edit
programme m (plural programmes)
Derived terms edit
- programmer (“to program”)