ENSEMBLE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for ENSEMBLE?

Need another word that means the same as “ensemble”? Find 20 synonyms and 30 related words for “ensemble” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Ensemble” are: corps de ballet, tout ensemble, supporting players, group, band, orchestra, combo, whole, whole thing, entity, unit, unity, body, piece, object, outfit, costume, suit, coordinates, set of clothes

Ensemble as a Noun

Definitions of "Ensemble" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “ensemble” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A cast other than the principals.
• A coordinated outfit (set of clothing.
• A piece of music or passage written for performance by a whole cast, choir, or group of instruments.
• A set of clothes chosen to harmonize when worn together.
• An assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole.
• A group of musicians, actors, or dancers who perform together.
• The coordination between performers executing an ensemble passage.
• A group of similar systems, or different states of the same system, often considered statistically.
• A group of items viewed as a whole rather than individually.
• The chorus of a ballet company.
• A group of musicians playing or singing together.

Synonyms of "Ensemble" as a noun (20 Words)

band	A narrow stratum of rock or coal. He noted that she wore a wedding band.
body	A person s body regarded as an object of sexual desire. Best of all this wine has body and finish.
combo	A sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock. A surf n turf combo.
coordinates	A number that identifies a position relative to an axis.
corps de ballet	An army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support.
costume	A swimming costume. Authentic Elizabethan costumes.
entity	That which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving. Church and empire were fused in a single entity.
group	Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. I now belong to my local drama group.
object	A constituent that is acted upon. In object oriented programming objects include data and define its status its methods of operation and how it interacts with other objects.
orchestra	The part of a theatre where the orchestra plays typically in front of the stage and on a lower level.
outfit	A group of people undertaking a particular activity together, especially a group of musicians, a team, or a business concern. Her wedding outfit.
piece	A serving that has been cut from a larger portion. Take a car to pieces.
set of clothes	Being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way.
suit	A lawsuit. He could not compete with John in Marian s eyes and his suit came to nothing.
supporting players	The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening.
tout ensemble	Someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way.
unit	The smallest measure of investment in a unit trust. The word is a basic linguistic unit.
unity	Each of the three dramatic principles requiring limitation of the supposed time of a drama to that occupied in acting it or to a single day unity of time use of one scene throughout unity of place and concentration on the development of a single plot unity of action. They speak of the three parts as a unity.
whole	A thing that is complete in itself. The subjects of the curriculum form a coherent whole.
whole thing	An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity.

Usage Examples of "Ensemble" as a noun

• The buildings in the square present a charming provincial ensemble.
• A string ensemble.
• Cherubini's numbers, with solos and ensembles intermingled, have a freedom and originality.
• A high level of tuning and ensemble is guaranteed.
• Her elegant pink and black ensemble put most outfits in the shade.
• A Bulgarian folk ensemble.
• We would have to adopt a picture in which there is an ensemble of all possible universes with some probability distribution.

Associations of "Ensemble" (30 Words)

aria	An elaborate song for solo voice.
cantata	A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
choir	The part of a cathedral or large church between the high altar and the nave used by the choir and clergy. A church choir.
choral	Composed for or sung by a choir or chorus. A choral scholar.
chorus	A section of text spoken by the chorus in drama. Sophocles no longer gave the chorus the major role.
concert	Settle by agreement. They started meeting regularly to concert their parliamentary tactics.
concerto	A musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra, especially one conceived on a relatively large scale.
guitar	A stringed musical instrument, with a fretted fingerboard, typically incurved sides, and six or twelve strings, played by plucking or strumming with the fingers or a plectrum.
harp	Play the harp. I don t want to harp on about the past.
harpsichord	A clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots.
jazz	A type of music of black American origin which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century characterized by improvisation syncopation and usually a regular or forceful rhythm Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz although guitar and occasionally violin are also used styles include Dixieland swing bebop and free jazz. Don t give me any of that jazz.
madrigal	Sing madrigals. The group was madrigaling beautifully.
music	Music the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments or reproductions of such sounds. The background music of softly lapping water.
musical	Characterized by or capable of producing music. A musical comedy.
oratorio	A large-scale, usually narrative musical work for orchestra and voices, typically on a sacred theme, performed without costume, scenery, or action. Well-known examples include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Messiah, and Haydn’s The Creation.
orchestra	The part of a theatre where the orchestra plays typically in front of the stage and on a lower level.
overture	An independent orchestral composition in one movement. The overture to Mozart s Don Giovanni.
performance	The extent to which an investment is profitable, especially in relation to other investments. It was a tremendous all round performance by Wigan.
pianist	A person who plays the piano, especially professionally.
piano	A large keyboard musical instrument with a wooden case enclosing a soundboard and metal strings, which are struck by hammers when the keys are depressed. The strings’ vibration is stopped by dampers when the keys are released and can be regulated for length and volume by two or three pedals. The piano passages in the composition.
playing	The act of playing a musical instrument.
rehearsal	(psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory. Rehearsals for the opera season.
sing	Sing in accompaniment to a song or piece of music. The nightingale was singing.
singing	The act of singing vocal music. The cries of laughter from children are a pleasant counterpoint to the singing of blackbirds.
soloist	A musician who performs a solo. He appears as a concerto soloist with all the great British orchestras.
sonata	A composition for an instrumental soloist often with a piano accompaniment typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form.
song	A musical composition suggestive of a song. A bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age.
symphony	A long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra. We heard the Vienna symphony.
viola	A bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower.
violin	Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow.