programme

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See also: Programme and programmé

English

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Pronunciation

Noun

programme (plural programmes)

  1. British, New Zealand, and India standard spelling of program.
    Our programme for today’s exercise class includes swimming and jogging.
    The programme about Greek architecture starts at 9:00 on Channel 4.
    ITEC is the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.
    • 1961, New Scientist, volume 9, number 226, page 679:
      Thus once a computer programme has been prepared, vastly different conditions can be inserted and experimented with at the expense of a few hours of computer time.
  2. (British, rare) Alternative spelling of program (“computer program”)

Usage notes

See usage notes at program.

Derived terms

Translations

programme — see program

Verb

programme (third-person singular simple present programmes, present participle programming, simple past and past participle programmed)

  1. British standard spelling of program.

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin programma, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma).

Pronunciation

Noun

programme m (plural programmes)

  1. a program (set of structured activities)
  2. a program (leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity)
  3. a program (particular mindset or method of doing things)
  4. (computing) a program (item of software; a computer program)
    Synonym: logiciel

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

programme

  1. inflection of programmer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Norman

Etymology

From Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”).

Noun

programme m (plural programmes)

  1. (computing, etc.) program

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