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orchestra

noun

ˈȯr-kə-strə

as in symphony

a usually large group of musicians playing together the orchestra will be performing a selection of Beethoven pieces tomorrow night

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Recent Examples of orchestra Or how about the highly respected conductor (Cate Blanchett) in Tar who slowly loses her mind before she is reduced, for her various misappropriations, to conducting a humiliating ragtag orchestra of cosplayers? —

Valerie Monroe, Allure, 25 Dec. 2024 This is an orchestra composed of high-school students and professionals. —

Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025 For most concerts that feature the organ, the organist plays the instrument backstage, heard but completely unseen by the audience, conductor and orchestra alike. —

George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025 In 2014, Gibbons stunned the classical world by performing Henryk Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs with a Polish orchestra. —

Darryn King, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for orchestra