English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of orchestra

orchestra

/noun/ ऑर्केस्ट्रा; आर्केस्ट्रा; बैंड; बाजा; वाद्य वुन्द; आरकेस्ट्रा;

Synonym band;

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English Dictionary:

1. Orchestra

[n.]

- The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.
- The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
- Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
- Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
- A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
- The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.