concert

Borrowed from French concert, from Italian concerto. Doublet of concerto.

• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɜːt/
  • (US) enPR: kənsûrtʹ, IPA^(key): /kənˈsɝt/

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• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnsət/
  • (US) enPR: känʹsərt, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnsɚt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t, -ɒnsə(ɹ)t

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concert (third-person singular simple present concerts, present participle concerting, simple past and past participle concerted)

1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
   • 1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], →OCLC:

     It was concerted to begin the siege in March.

2. To plan; to devise; to arrange.
   • 1710 October 30 (Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] Letter VII.”, in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XIV, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:

     The month ends with a fine day; and I have been walking, and visiting Lewis, and concerting where to see Mr. Harley. I have no news to send you.

   • 1756, [Edmund Burke], A Vindication of Natural Society: Or, A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society. […], London: […] M. Cooper […], →OCLC, page 56:

     Furious in their Adverſity, tyrannical in their Succeſſes, a Commander had more trouble to concert his Defence before the People, than to plan the Operations of the Campaign.

   • 1788, Publius [pseudonym; James Madison], “Number XLV”, in The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, […] , volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] J. and A. M‘Lean, […], →OCLC:

     Every Government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted. One spirit would animate and conduct the whole.

3. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
   • 1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], →OCLC:

     The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert the matter with Talbot.

concert (countable and uncountable, plural concerts)

A concert (noun sense 3).

1. (uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
   • 1788, Publius [pseudonym; Alexander Hamilton], “Number LIX”, in The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, […] , volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] J. and A. M‘Lean, […], →OCLC:

     The dissimilarity in the ingredients which will compose the National Government, and in still more in the manner in which they will be brought into action in its various branches, must form a powerful obstacle to a concert of views, in any partial scheme of elections.

   • 1837, John C. Calhoun, Slavery a Positive Good:

     All we want is concert, to lay aside all party differences and unite with zeal and energy in repelling approaching dangers. Let there be concert of action, and we shall find ample means of security without resorting to secession or disunion.

2. (uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
3. (countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.

   Synonym: gig

   I’m going to the rock concert on Friday.

   Who’s playing at the concert on Friday?

   The Beatles’ final live concert took place on 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park

   • 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves”, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909 (11th printing), →OCLC:

     The concert came off in the evening and was a pronounced success. The little hall was crowded; all the performers did excellently well, but Anne was the bright particular star of the occasion, as even envy, in the shape of Josie Pye, dared not deny.

• → Japanese: コンサート (konsāto)
• → Korean: 콘서트 (konseoteu)
• → Thai: คอนเสิร์ต (kɔɔn-sə̀ət)

• Concert in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

concert m (plural concerts)

1. concert (musical entertainment)

• concertista

• concertar

• “concert” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “concert”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “concert” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “concert” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from French concert, from Italian concerto.

• IPA^(key): /kɔnˈsɛrt/

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• Hyphenation: con‧cert
• Rhymes: -ɛrt

concert n (plural concerten, diminutive concertje n)

1. concert (musical entertainment)

• concertgebouw
• concertmeester
• concertzaal

• Afrikaans: konsert
• → Indonesian: konser
• → Papiamentu: kònsèrt
• → West Frisian: konsert

Borrowed from Italian concerto.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɛʁ/

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concert m (plural concerts)

1. concert (musical entertainment)

• → Dutch: concert
• → English: concert
• → Romanian: concert
• → Turkish: konser

• “concert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• concret

Borrowed from French concert.

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concert n (plural concerte)

1. concert