English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
| English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
| overture | (โอ'เวอะเชอะ) n. เพลงโหมโรง,ฉากเริ่มต้น,โคลงนำ,การเล่นนำ,บทนำ,การเริ่มต้น,การแสดงเอง,การเสนอ,การทาบทาม.vt. เสนอ,ทาบทาม, Syn. proposal,offer |
| coverture | (คัฟ'เวอะเชอ) n. สิ่งปกคลุม,การซ่อนเร้น |
| English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
| overture | (n) การทาบทาม,การติดต่อ,การเริ่มต้น,เพลงโหมโรง |
| coverture | (n) การปิดบัง,การหลบซ่อน,การซ่อนเร้น |
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| German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary
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| Result from Foreign Dictionaries (5 entries found) |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Overture \O"ver*ture\, [OF. overture, F. ouverture, fr. OF.
ovrir, F. ouvrir. See {Overt}.]
1. An opening or aperture; a recess; a chamber. [Obs.]
--Spenser. "The cave's inmost overture." --Chapman.
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2. Disclosure; discovery; revelation. [Obs.]
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It was he
That made the overture of thy treasons to us.
--Shak.
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3. A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for
consideration, acceptance, or rejection. "The great
overture of the gospel." --Barrow.
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4. (Mus.) A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an
introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an
independent piece; -- called in the latter case a {concert
overture}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Overture \O"ver*ture\, v. t.
To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on
some subject.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
overture
n 1: orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or
oratorio
2: something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what
follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment";
"drinks were the overture to dinner" [syn: {preliminary},
{overture}, {prelude}]
3: a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of
others; "she rejected his advances" [syn: {overture},
{advance}, {approach}, {feeler}]
From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:
overture [ouvətʃər]
Ouvertüre
From English-French Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-fra]:
overture [ouvətʃər]
ouverture
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