repertoire
See also: Repertoire and répertoire
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French répertoire, from Late Latin repertōrium (“an inventory, list, repertory”). Doublet of repertory.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛp.ə.twɑː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛp.əɹ.twɑɹ/, /ˈɹɛp.ə.twɑɹ/[1][2]
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
repertoire (plural repertoires)
- A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform or display.
- Coordinate term: (analog for fine artist) portfolio
- The conjurer expanded his repertoire with some new tricks.
- 2026 February 8, Luis Giraldo, “Bad Bunny lyrics to know before his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show”, in CBS News[1], archived from the original on 9 February 2026:
- When Bad Bunny took center stage for the 2026 Super Bowl LX halftime show on Sunday at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the Puerto Rican artist made history as the first music star with a primarily Spanish-language repertoire to do so.
- The set of skills, abilities, experiences, etc., possessed by a person.
- The set of vocalisations used by a bird.
- An amount, body, or collection of something.
- (computing) A processor's instruction set.
- (computing) An abstract set of characters, independent of their encoding.
- ISO Latin 1 repertoire
- 2006, Jukka K. Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 39:
- There is quite a jump from the WGL4 repertoire to the Unicode 2.0 repertoire, but there are few intermediate general purpose repertoires.
Derived terms
Translations
list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed
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set of skills possessed by a person; collection of items
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an amount, body, or collection of something
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See also
References
- ^ “repertoire”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “repertoire”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “repertoire”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “repertoire”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French répertoire.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: re‧per‧toi‧re
Noun
repertoire m (plural repertoires, diminutive repertoiretje n)
Descendants
- → Indonesian: repertoar