Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A work of art.
- n. The sum of the lifework of an artist, writer, or composer.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
Etymologies
- From French œuvre, from the Latin opus. (Wiktionary)
- French œuvre, from Old French uevre, work, from Latin opera, from pl. of opus, work; see opus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I've read a bit of her stuff online, and one thing I notice that seems to be missing from her oeuvre is her own romantic past.”
“The general theme permeating the Appleyard oeuvre, is to suggest that humans have needs which, in general, they don't actually have, such as the need for 'the sacred', and the need for 'spiritual depth', and to suggest that science is a threat because it threatens these needs.”
“I strongly suspect that the convention of the oeuvre is that the horrible things threatening the sympathetic characters will not come to pass.”
“Indeed, the entire oeuvre is more a mirror than I thought: the Stooges weren't the Stooges because they did what was familiar to them.”
“Connie Willis came to mind, but I must admit that my knowledge of her oeuvre is decidedly lacking.”
“While the breadth of Marv Albert's cinematic oeuvre is substantial, he's been narrowly typecast: He always plays a sportscaster — specifically, always himself.”
“But ‘Minus One’, contextualised with the rest of the oeuvre, is completely baffling.”
“Despite the fact this sounds more like a desperate request for prescribed drugs, I am addicted so it does mean that the rest of his oeuvre is on its way.”
“Her oeuvre is too modest, but will never be forgotten.”
“[W] hat's most annoying about Zwick's oeuvre is he typically stumbles upon really good ideas for movies, and then so thoroughly botches the execution that you're ashamed to still be sitting in the theater after two and a half hours.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oeuvre’.
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sdamle1
echt
echt, apocalypse, resurgence, forthright, logorrhea, mercurial, torrid, exorcise, obscure, intrusive, morose, vindictive and 99 more...
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my fab list
blowsabella, aperçu, froideur, salubrious, abject, gallipot, mumchance, wainscot, virago, macerate, lascivious, clandestine and 181 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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Collected Words - List 2
I've been saving these words FOR YEARS. Now, I've found Wordie
gasconade, zaccheus, spoor, precentor, bombazine, otiose, khamsin, bruited, viva voce, whilom, lenitive, ebullition and 244 more...
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Poe
dark descriptors
sepulchral, unutterable, decrepitude, abjection, abasement, lugubrious, moribund, recrudescence, prevaricator, doppelgänger, ululation, crepuscular and 11 more...
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Ballardian
All things descriptive from JG
Ballardoperation mindfuck, pataphysics, wahrheitssensible..., polymorphism, postprandial, covalent, stygian, lucus a non lucendo, kafkaesque, leitmotif, fugacious, ablate and 77 more...
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Tricky To Spell or Pronounce
ply, stationary, stationery, monetize, finagle, cartilaginous, apposite, languor, douceur, Umwelt, faze, sequela and 13 more...
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Burroughs
Detestable words
purulence, bête noire, exigent, exculpate, desideratum, lucriferous, concomitant, pertinacious, pervicacious, gemütlichkeit, sublimate, sanfroid and 38 more...
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Tricky Words from French
Loanwords from French -- both established and wet behind the ears -- that are tricky to spell or pronounce properly.
trompe l'oeil, hors d'oeuvre, oeuvre, objet d'art, objet trouvé, contretemps, milieu, métier, mise en scène, mise en place, éclat, faineant and 64 more...
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Fancy Foreign Words
de facto, Zeitgeist, schadenfreude, apropos, per se, Auteur, tookus, de rigueur, xyst, arrivederci, sotto, troika and 15 more...
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Remember Not To Forget
Sephardic, Umwelt, amphiboly, untrammeled, sequela, pandiculation, tensegrity, syncretism, pugilism, shemagh, disquisition, perspicacity and 65 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1834 more...
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Favorite Words
pablum, maundy, histrionic, adamant, ascribe, verbiage, insouciant, erudite, gregarious, superfluous, banal, obdurate and 280 more...
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catinthehat345's List
compere, reticle, colophon, miasma, eldritch, raconteur, plectrum, poltroon, vestibular, pastiche, cravat, acumen and 179 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for oeuvre.
seanahan I had to debate whether or not I liked this one enough to list it, since it sounds too Frenchy, but I decided it made the cut. Dec 2, 2006