ORCHESTRA
\ˈɔːkɛstɹə], \ˈɔːkɛstɹə], \ˈɔː_k_ɛ_s_t_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of ORCHESTRA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
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Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
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Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
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A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
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The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
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The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; - originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.
By Oddity Software
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The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
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Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
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Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
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A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
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The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
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The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; - originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.
By Noah Webster.
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In a modern theater, etc., the place occupied by the instrumental musicians; the body of musicians; the collection of instruments on which they play; the forward part or all of the main floor of a theater.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In the Greek theatre, the place where the chorus danced: the part of a theatre for the musicians: the performers in an orchestra.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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