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# concert

«concert» in Mova's school dictionary: **a show where people play music or sing for an audience** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (concert, concerts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A concert is a show where people play music or sing for an audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#m1)

2) «In concert» also means working together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: an event with tickets, seats, people attending or a length of time; tickets × price gives money; start and end times; school: the school concert, the winter concert, the choir; everyday life: going to a concert with family; safety: stay with your adult in a crowd

### examples

- 500 people came to the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#x1)
- A concert ticket costs $12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#x2)
- The concert lasted 2 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#x3)
- They sold 80 tickets for the school concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#x4)
- Our class sang at the winter concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#x5)
- The concert starts at 7 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#x6)
- The band played at an outdoor concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#x7)
- We clapped at the end of the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#x8)
- And she was invited to the concert in the evening--the family concert; great enthusiasm and thin voices; we know the sort of thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/#x9)

### note

A word of the story; the numbers are tickets, people, prices or time. Trap: count adults and children tickets apart when they cost different amounts. Length = end time − start time.

### In the corpora

- [The bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument; modern concert banduras have around 55 to 65 strings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/5/)
- [Pop and rock concerts are loud and crowded; big festivals run for several days with many stages, and many fans wear earplugs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/7/)
- [Many musicians earn more from concerts and merch than from streams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/6/)
- [Before a concert the orchestra tunes to one note, usually an A played by the oboe, so everyone plays in tune together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/7/)
- [When the Hatter sang at the concert, the Queen «bawled out» (shouted) «He's murdering the time!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «concert» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/concert/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.