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concert
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French concert, from Italian concerto. Doublet of concerto.
Pronunciation
- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?s??t/
- (US) enPR: k?nsûrt?, IPA(key): /k?n?s?t/
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?ns?t/
- (US) enPR: kän?s?rt, IPA(key): /?k?ns?t/
- Rhymes: -??(r)t
Verb
concert (third-person singular simple present concerts, present participle concerting, simple past and past participle concerted)
- To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
- It was concerted to begin the siege in March.
- To plan; to devise; to arrange.
- 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
- A commander had more trouble to concert his defence before the people than to plan […] the campaign.
- 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
- To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
- The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert the matter with Talbot.
Translations
Noun
concert (countable and uncountable, plural concerts)
- (uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
- (uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
- (countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
- I'm going to the rock concert on Friday.
- Synonym: gig
Derived terms
- concertmaster
- in concert
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (kons?to)
- ? Korean: ??? (konseoteu)
- ? Thai: ????????? (k??n-s???t)
Translations
Further reading
- Concert in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Catalan
Noun
concert m (plural concerts)
- concert (musical entertainment)
Derived terms
- concertista
Related terms
- concertar
Further reading
- “concert” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “concert” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “concert” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “concert” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French concert, from Italian concerto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?s?rt/
- Hyphenation: con?cert
- Rhymes: -?rt
Noun
concert n (plural concerten, diminutive concertje n)
- concert (musical entertainment)
Derived terms
- concertgebouw
- concertmeester
- concertzaal
Descendants
- Afrikaans: konsert
- ? Indonesian: konser
- ? West Frisian: konsert
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian concerto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.s??/
Noun
concert m (plural concerts)
- concert (musical entertainment)
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Dutch: concert
- ? Turkish: konser
Further reading
- “concert” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- concret
Romanian
Etymology
From French concert
Noun
concert n (plural concerte)
- concert
Declension
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theater
English
Alternative forms
- theatre (standard spelling in all English-speaking countries that use British spelling)
Etymology
From Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from ??????? (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”). Doublet of tiatr.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??i(?)t?/, sometimes /????.t?/
- (Canada, Southern American English) IPA(key): /??i(?)t?/, /??i.e?.t?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /??i??.t?/, /????.t?/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /??i?t?/, [??i??t?], [??i????]
Noun
theater (countable and uncountable, plural theaters) (American spelling)
- A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
- A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
- A lecture theatre.
- (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
- (US) A cinema.
- Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
- Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
Usage notes
- The spelling theatre is the main spelling in British English, with theater being rare.
- In United States English, theater accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.
- Among American theatre professionals, there is some usage of the two spellings in order to differentiate between the location theater (as in definitions 1–5) and the art-form theatre (definition 6). A variant of this differentiation is the usage of theatre for things relating to live performances (as in definitions 1 and 6) with theater being used for all other uses.
Synonyms
- fabulous invalid
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of theatre
Anagrams
- hat tree, hattree, teareth, tethera, theatre, thereat
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French théâtre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from ??????? (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te??(j)a?t?r/
- Hyphenation: the?a?ter
- Rhymes: -a?t?r
Noun
theater n (plural theaters, diminutive theatertje n)
- theater (US), theatre (Commonwealth): either drama, the art form, or a drama theater (building)
Synonyms
- schouwburg
Derived terms
- danstheater
- theaterkunst
- volkstheater
Descendants
- Afrikaans: teater
- ? Indonesian: teater
Middle English
Alternative forms
- theatre, teatre, theatyr, theatere
Etymology
From Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??at?r/, /?t???a?t?r/
Noun
theater
- A theatre open to the sky; an amphitheatre.
- Any stage which plays and performances take place at.
- (rare) A whorehouse.
Descendants
- English: theater, theatre
- Scots: theatre
References
- “th????tre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
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