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Encore

//ˈɑnkoɹ// intj, noun, verb

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Please perform again!
Noun
  1. 1
    A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.

    "To play an encore."

  2. 2
    an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand wordnet
  3. 3
    A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.

    "The encores were numerous."

Verb
  1. 1
    To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by. transitive

    "to encore a performer"

  2. 2
    request an encore, from a performer wordnet
  3. 3
    To call for an encore. intransitive
  4. 4
    To perform an encore. intransitive

    "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!'"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

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