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# orchestra

«orchestra» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large group of musicians who play many instruments…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an orchestra, orchestras)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An orchestra is a large group of musicians who play many instruments together, such as violins, flutes, trumpets and drums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchestra/#m1)

2) (UK) The orchestra stalls are the seats at the front on the ground floor of a theatre; in the USA "the orchestra" means those seats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchestra/#m2)

3) The orchestra pit is the low space in front of a stage where the orchestra plays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchestra/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons, the orchestra is split into sections: strings, woodwind, brass and percussion, led by a conductor. In maths problems, musicians in an orchestra are grouped and counted. Phrases: school orchestra, symphony orchestra, orchestra pit, play in an orchestra.

### examples

- I play the violin in the school orchestra. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchestra/#x1)
- The conductor waved his baton and the orchestra began. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchestra/#x2)
- An orchestra has strings, woodwind, brass and percussion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchestra/#x3)
- The orchestra has 24 violins and 12 cellos, so 36 string players in those two groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchestra/#x4)
- We sat near the orchestra pit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchestra/#x5)
- The orchestra played music for the film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchestra/#x6)

### note

Pronounced "OR-kes-tra"; the ch sounds like k. Countable. A small group of musicians is a band or an ensemble; an orchestra is large and usually plays classical music.

### In the corpora

- [Ukraine has won Eurovision three times: in 2004 with Ruslana, in 2016 with Jamala and in 2022 with Kalush Orchestra.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/10/)
- [Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the louder brass and percussion at the back, to balance the sound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/12/)
- [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/)
- [Ukraine won Eurovision in 2004 (Ruslana), 2016 (Jamala with «1944») and 2022 (Kalush Orchestra).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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