orchestra – English noun declension

English noun forms of orchestra

Noun: orchestra
Singularorchestra
Pluralorchestras

Sample Sentences

  • The orchestra plays music for the dancers to dance to in the 19th century-styled dance hall.
  • It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles. [1941 February, Voyageur, “The Railways of Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:]
  • Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra. [2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender):]
  • the jackhammering racket of the city softened and an orchestra of crickets trilled in unison [2024 September 11, Eliot Stein, “Kayaking the waters that shaped New York City”, in BBC:]
  • Nightfall also awakened the neighborhood orchestra of crickets. [2024 April 21, Borden Applegate, “Jacksonville Beach retiree: Memories of frogs, fireflies and a natural world now vanished”, in The Florida Times Union:]
  • Then he’ll focus his attention on the family’s sprawling property in the Riverland town of Loxton, where Schubert farms an orchestra of crickets. [2025, Ben Hook, “Cockroaches and crickets the future for Olympic hero”, in Sen.com.au:]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orchēstra, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra), from ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai, “to dance”) + -τρᾰ (-tră, “a suffix used to form instrument nouns (pl.)”).

Verbs referencing "orchestra"

Spanish Nouns karaoke, German Nouns Karaoke, Portuguese Nouns karaokê.