Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.
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A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
Can I get an encore? We want more!
To play an encore.
A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
The encores were numerous.
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vi điệu múa lại (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · sq bis (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · el πρόσκληση (a call for a repeat performance) · gv aagherrym (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · gd ath-ghairm (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · sh би̏с (a call for a repeat performance) · fi encore (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · hu ráadás (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · mi turukitanga (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · kmr dubare (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · de Zugabe (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · et lisapala (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · ru биси́рование (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · rom májoprécsunél (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · es bis (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · it bis (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · lt bisas (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · tl pag-ulit (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · mi turuki (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · no ekstranummer (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · pt bis (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · pt bis (a call for a repeat performance) · cs přídavek (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · gd tuilleadh (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · ca bis (a call for a repeat performance) · ro bis (a call for a repeat performance) · fi ylimääräinen numero (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · sv extranummer (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · he הַדְרָן (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · pl bis (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · ko 앙코르 (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · cmn 安可 (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · ru вы́зов на бис (a call for a repeat performance) · nl toegift (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · ja アンコール (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · fr bis (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · sh би̏с (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · bg бис (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · sh bȉs (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · cmn 恩可 (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · de Zugabe (a call for a repeat performance) · sh bȉs (a call for a repeat performance) · fr rappel (a call for a repeat performance) · ca bis (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · fr bis (a call for a repeat performance) · th อังกอร์ (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · nl bisnummer (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · ru исполне́ние на бис (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · vi bài hát lại (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · ro bis (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete) · cmn 安哥 (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete)
Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.
Meanings
(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.
They encored with a cover of the Beatles' “Blackbird,” “The Bigger You Love” in 1970, and “Ha Ha Ha” in early '71. 2011, Bill Dahl, Motown: The Golden Years: More than 100 rare photographs, page 304:
Truly unbelievable. Left us all gasping for breath, and wanting more. I think they encored twice, but twenty encores would have been too few. 2011, Smitty Herron, Music's Golden Frontier:
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!' 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:
es bisar (to perform an encore) · fr bisser (to perform an encore) · pl bisować (to call for an encore) · pl bisować (to perform an encore) · fr bisser (to call for an encore) · es pedir un bis (to call for an encore) · es segundar (to perform an encore)