oeuvre

• œuvre

From French œuvre, from Latin opera (plural of Latin opus). Doublet of opera, opus, and ure.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɜːvɹə/, /ˈuːvɹə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈəːvɹə/, /ˈuːvɹə/

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oeuvre (plural oeuvres)

1. A work of art.
2. (uncountable, collective) The complete body of an artist's work.

   Synonyms: body of work, complete works

   • 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 7:

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

   • 2006, Michel Foucault, “Madness, the absence of an œuvre.”, in Jean Khalfa, transl.; Jean Khalfa, editor, In History of Madness, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 541–549:

     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.

   • 2012 April 23, Barbara B. Heyman, “Introduction”, in Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     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opus numbers suggested a small output, in fact his oeuvre comprised more than 100 published and nearly as many unpublished pieces representative of nearly every musical genre.

• hors d'oeuvre
• manoeuvre

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oeuvre n (plural oeuvres, diminutive oeuvretje n)

1. oeuvre

• IPA^(key): /œvʁ/

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oeuvre f (plural oeuvres)

1. Nonstandard spelling of œuvre.

• The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.

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

• érouve

• œuvre

Old French uevre.

oeuvre m or f (plural oeuvres)

1. work; piece of work