# encore
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɒŋkɔː/, /ˈɒ̃kɔː/
* (US) IPA: /ˈɑnkoɹ/, /ˈɑŋkoɹ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: en‧core

### Noun

encore (plural encores)
* 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.

#### Translations
### Interjection

encore!
* (said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!

#### Translations
### Verb

encore (third-person singular simple present encores, present participle encoring, simple past and past participle encored)
* (transitive) To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
    to encore a performer
    to encore a song
* (intransitive) To call for an encore.
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* unencored

#### Translations
### 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. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from German noch (adverb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑ̃.kɔʁ/
* Audio (France):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔʁ

### Adverb

encore
* still
    Synonym: toujours
    Êtes-vous encore là? ― Are you still there?
* more
    Synonym: davantage
    Voulez-vous encore du pain ? ― Would you like more bread?
    Tu en veux encore? ― Do you want some more?
* again
    Synonym: à nouveau
    Écris-le encore une fois! ― Write it once again!
* (after the adverb pas) yet, not yet
    Je n’ai pas encore fini. ― I haven't finished yet.
* (Alsace) again (following a question)
    Synonym: déjà

#### 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
* inflection of encorar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative