Orchestra
['ɔːkɪstrə] or ['ɔrkɪstrə]
Definition
(noun.) seating on the main floor in a theater.
(noun.) a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players.
Typist: Millie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
(n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Place for musicians (as in a theatre).[2]. Band of instrumental musicians (in an orchestra).
Typist: Pansy
Definition
n. in the Greek theatre the place where the chorus danced: now the part of a theatre or concert-room in which the musicians are placed: the performers in an orchestra.—ns. Orchē′sis the art of dancing or rhythmical movement of the body; Orchesog′raphy the theory of dancing.—adjs. Or′chestral Orches′tric of or pertaining to an orchestra: performed in an orchestra.—v.t. Or′chestrāte to arrange for an orchestra.—ns. Orchestrā′tion the arrangement of music for an orchestra: instrumentation; Orches′trion a musical instrument of the barrel-organ kind designed to imitate an orchestra.
Checker: Patrice
Unserious Contents or Definition
Belonging to an orchestra and playing, foretells pleasant entertainments, and your sweetheart will be faithful and cultivated. To hear the music of an orchestra, denotes that the knowledge of humanity will at all times prove you to be a much-liked person, and favors will fall unstintedly upon you.
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Examples
- The horn extends beyond the machine and the singer, band or orchestra is stationed in front of the mouth of this horn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was James Smith, who conducted the orchestra at the old Imperial Theatre. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When I came into the box, the orchestra played the 'Star-Spangled Banner,' and all the people in the house arose; whereupon I was very much embarrassed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Indeed there may be generally observed in him an unbending, unyielding, brass-bound air, as if he were himself the bassoon of the human orchestra. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The seating arrangement of the Philadelphia orchestra. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The unusual length and thickness of the strings of the double bass make it produce very low notes, so that it is ordinarily looked upon as the bass voice of the orchestra. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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