Oeuvre Definition

œvrə
oeuvres
noun
oeuvres

A work of art.

Wiktionary
The group consisting of all the works, usually of a lifetime, of a particular writer, artist, or composer.
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Noun

Singular:
oeuvre
Plural:
oeuvres

Origin of Oeuvre

  • French œuvre from Old French uevre work from Latin opera from pl. of opus work opus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French Å“uvre, from the Latin opus.

    From Wiktionary

Oeuvre Sentence Examples

  • Thus we have a director developing an oeuvre that combines social concerns with genuine cinematic expression.

  • Who really needs to carry round 1,000 hours of music, 102 songs by Madonna, the entire oeuvre of the Beautiful South?

  • The genteel setting of a provincial tea room is quite unusual in his oeuvre.

  • The best modern work on the subject is by the comtesse Catherine de Flavigny, entitled Sainte Brigitte de Suede, sa vie, ses revelations et son oeuvre (Paris, 1892), which contains an exhaustive bibliogr,aphy.

  • Glover, Life and Letters in the Fourth Century (1901); Abbe Gimazane, Ammianus Marcellinus, sa vie et son oeuvre (Toulouse, 1889), a work containing a number of very doubtful theories.

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