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See also: Ensemble

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Pronunciation

Noun

ensemble (plural ensembles)

  1. A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole.
  2. (fashion) A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit.
  3. (collective) A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company.
    • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
      On paper, Continental Drift boasts a jaw-dropping voice cast, including but not limited to Jennifer Lopez, Patrick Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Alan Tudyk. But in practice, the overstuffed ensemble leaves the cast no room to distinguish themselves, and directors Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier don’t seem interested in coaxing performances that might render their money stars less identifiable.
  4. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (music) A piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists.
  5. (mathematics, physics) A probability distribution for the state of the system.
  6. (machine learning) A supervised learning algorithm combining multiple hypotheses.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ensemble (third-person singular simple present ensembles, present participle ensembling, simple past and past participle ensembled)

  1. To put together in a coordinated whole.
    • 1908, Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report - Volume 62, page 969:
      Landscape gardening or landscape architecture is the art that seeks the production of the most beautiful landscape effects, ensembling the various objects of interest into a grand whole and harmonious unit.
  2. (music) To perform in a musical ensemble.

Further reading

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɑnˈsɑm.blə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: en‧sem‧ble

Noun

ensemble n (plural ensembles, diminutive ensembletje n)

  1. ensemble
  2. ensemble (group of musicians)
  3. (theater) troupe

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: ansambêl

Finnish

Etymology

< French ensemble

Pronunciation

Noun

ensemble

  1. ensemble (group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together)

Declension

Inflection of ensemble (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative ensemble ensemblet
genitive ensemblen ensemblejen
partitive ensembleä ensemblejä
illative ensembleen ensembleihin
singular plural
nominative ensemble ensemblet
accusative nom. ensemble ensemblet
gen. ensemblen
genitive ensemblen ensemblejen
ensemblein rare
partitive ensembleä ensemblejä
inessive ensemblessä ensembleissä
elative ensemblestä ensembleistä
illative ensembleen ensembleihin
adessive ensemblellä ensembleillä
ablative ensembleltä ensembleiltä
allative ensemblelle ensembleille
essive ensemblenä ensembleinä
translative ensembleksi ensembleiksi
abessive ensemblettä ensembleittä
instructive ensemblein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of ensemble (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative ensembleni ensembleni
accusative nom. ensembleni ensembleni
gen. ensembleni
genitive ensembleni ensemblejeni
ensembleini rare
partitive ensembleäni ensemblejäni
inessive ensemblessäni ensembleissäni
elative ensemblestäni ensembleistäni
illative ensembleeni ensembleihini
adessive ensemblelläni ensembleilläni
ablative ensembleltäni ensembleiltäni
allative ensemblelleni ensembleilleni
essive ensemblenäni ensembleinäni
translative ensemblekseni ensembleikseni
abessive ensemblettäni ensembleittäni
instructive
comitative ensembleineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative ensemblesi ensemblesi
accusative nom. ensemblesi ensemblesi
gen. ensemblesi
genitive ensemblesi ensemblejesi
ensembleisi rare
partitive ensembleäsi ensemblejäsi
inessive ensemblessäsi ensembleissäsi
elative ensemblestäsi ensembleistäsi
illative ensembleesi ensembleihisi
adessive ensemblelläsi ensembleilläsi
ablative ensembleltäsi ensembleiltäsi
allative ensemblellesi ensembleillesi
essive ensemblenäsi ensembleinäsi
translative ensembleksesi ensembleiksesi
abessive ensemblettäsi ensembleittäsi
instructive
comitative ensembleinesi

French

Etymology

From Old French ensemble, from Latin īnsimul, a variant of simul See also Italian insieme, Catalan ensems.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ensemble

  1. together
    Synonym: en commun
    Antonyms: séparément, tout seul
    avoir élevé les cochons ensemble, avoir gardé les cochons ensemble(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    faire chaudière ensemble(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • 2018, Zaz, Nos vies:
      Pour sûr que l'on est bien ensemble.
      We sure are good together.

Noun

ensemble m (plural ensembles)

  1. set, grouping, aggregate, collection, body (a coming together of elements forming a whole, a unified or interrelated group)
    dans l'ensemble(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    dans son ensemble(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    vue d'ensemble(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    La jurisprudence désigne l'ensemble des décisions de justice relatives à une question juridique donnée.
    Jurisprudence refers to all court decisions relating to a given legal issue.
    La langue d'oïl est considérée, selon la vision traditionnelle de la linguistique romane, comme une seule et même langue, qui correspond principalement à un ensemble de dialectes d'oïl répartis historiquement autour de Paris.
    The langue d'oïl is considered, according to the traditional vision of Romance linguistics, as one and the same language, which corresponds primarily to a collection of "oïl" dialects historically distributed around Paris.
  2. an outfit (a set of articles of clothing)
  3. (mathematics) a set
    la théorie des ensemblesset theory
    l'ensemble videthe the empty set
  4. (music) an ensemble

Usage notes

When the subject of the verb is the collective noun ensemble followed by a predicate complement, the verb usually agrees with ensemble. In this case, the focus lies on the collective whole referred to by ensemble.
Though less common, it is not considered incorrect for the verb to agree with the grammatically plural predicate complement. In this case, the focus shifts to the individual elements of the collective whole. Plural agreement is more common with the indefinite article un modifying ensemble (i.e. un ensemble).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Dauzat, Albert with Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
  2. ^ Banque de dépannage linguistique

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble, from Late Latin insimul.

Noun

ensemble n (definite singular ensemblet, indefinite plural ensembler, definite plural ensembla or ensemblene)

  1. an ensemble

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble, from Late Latin insimul.

Noun

ensemble n (definite singular ensemblet, indefinite plural ensemble, definite plural ensembla)

  1. an ensemble

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin in simul.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /en.ˈsem.blə/, (later) /an.ˈsam.blə/

Adverb

ensemble

  1. together

Descendants

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French ensemble, from Latin īnsimul.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /anˈsambl/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ambl
  • Syllabification: en‧semble

Noun

ensemble m inan

  1. (music, theater) alternative spelling of ansambl

Derived terms

adjective
adjective

Further reading

  • ensemble in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ensemble in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French ensemble.

Noun

ensemble m (plural ensembles)

  1. ensemble (a coordinated costume or outfit)
    Synonym: conjunto
  2. ensemble (a group of artists who perform together)
    Synonym: conjunto
  3. (music) ensemble (a piece for several musicians)
    Synonym: conjunto

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Noun

ensemble m (plural ensembles)

  1. ensemble

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Noun

ensemble c

  1. ensemble; a group of musicians, dancers etc who perform together; the chorus of a ballet company
  2. (music) ensemble; a piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists
  3. ensemble; a coordinated costume or outfit; a suite

Declension

Declension of ensemble
nominative genitive
singular indefinite ensemble ensembles
definite ensemblen ensemblens
plural indefinite ensembler ensemblers
definite ensemblerna ensemblernas

References