encore
Plural: encores
Noun
- an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand
- A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
- A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
Verb
Verb Forms: encored, encoring, encores
- To call for an additional performance from an artist.
- request an encore, from a performer
- To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
- To call for an encore.
- To perform an encore.
Intj
- Please perform again!
Examples
- Can I get an encore? We want more!
- The crowd wanted to encore his magnificent Scrabble performance.
- The encores were numerous.
- to encore a performer
- to encore a song
- To play an encore.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.
Scrabble Score: 8
encore: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordencore: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
encore: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
encore: valid Words With Friends Word