Crossword-Solution: ORCHESTRA
Dictionary
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| Orchestra | 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. |
| Orchestra | n. | The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians. |
| Orchestra | n. | Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement. |
| Orchestra | 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. |
| Orchestra | 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. |
| Orchestra | n. | The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments. |
Anagrams
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| ORCHESTRA | anagram | CAROTHERS, CARTHORSE |
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Sentences with ORCHESTRA (5)
The musician was an old gray-headed negro, who had been the itinerant orchestra of the neighborhood for more than half a century.
Their father had played the oboe in an orchestra in Sweden, before he came to America to better his fortunes.
The house was packed, both in the smart orchestra boxes and the pit, as well as in the more plebeian balconies and galleries above.
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right! Of course I came home wondering why people should come from all corners of America to hear these operas, when we have lately had a season or two of them in New York with these same singers in the several parts, and possibly this same orchestra.
Lady Westmere is very fond of Hilda.” When they reached their box the house was darkened and the orchestra was playing “The Cloak of Old Gaul.” In a moment Peggy was on the stage again, and Alexander applauded vigorously with the rest.
Quotes with ORCHESTRA (3)
Speaking is like conducting an orchestra; but instead of music, you are directing emotions.
The individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may not have the sound of music by themselves, but we hear them out of context. If we could listen to them all at once, fully orchestrated, in their immense ensemble, we might become aware of the counterpoint, the balance of tones and timbres and harmonics, the sonorities. The recorded songs of the humpback whale, filled with tensions and resolutions, ambiguities and allusions, inco…
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).