orchestra
Orchestra is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter O and ends with the letter A for which we found 5 definitions.
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| (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. |
Syllable Information
The word orchestra is a 9 letter word that has 3 syllable 's . The syllable division for orchestra is: or-ches-tra
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