encore

Noun

encore (plural encores)

1. A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
   • To play an encore.
   • Can I get an encore? We want more!
2. A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
   • The encores were numerous.

Interjection

1. Please perform again!

Verb

encore (third-person singular simple present encores, present participle encoring, simple past and past participle encored)

1. (transitive) To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
   • to encore a performer
   • to encore a song
2. (intransitive) To call for an encore.
3. (intransitive) To perform an encore.
   • 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
   • 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