Oeuvre

Quick meaning: Oeuvre is a noun meaning A work of art, music or literature.

Meaning

A work of art, music or literature.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, collective) A substantial or complete corpus of works produced by a artist, composer, or writer.

Example Sentences

the complete oeuvre of Mozart

Let’s “fictionalize” Foucault’s life by turning it into a biographical account of Foucault and his oeuvre or work.

There, in that pale region, beneath that essential cover, the twin incompatibility of an œuvre and madness is unveiled; it is the blind spot of each one's possibility, and of their mutual exclusion.

Although, at the onset of my writing this catalogue, his forty-eight opus numbers suggested a small output, in fact his oeuvre comprised more than 100 published and nearly as many unpublished pieces representative of nearly every musical genre.

Word Forms

• oeuvres

Synonyms for oeuvre

Depending on context, synonyms include corpus, work.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include work, works, implementation, place, force, softwood.

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