encore

"Encore" message during the show Monty Python Live (Mostly) in 2014.

Meanings

Adverb

Noun

  • A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
  • A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.

Interjection

  • Please perform again!

Verb

Origin

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

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