OEUVRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oeuvre mean? 

• OEUVRE (noun)
  The noun OEUVRE has 1 sense:

1. the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)

  Familiarity information: OEUVRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OEUVRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

body of work; oeuvre; work

Context example:

Picasso's work can be divided into periods

Hypernyms ("oeuvre" is a kind of...):

end product; output (final product; the things produced)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oeuvre"):

writing ((usually plural) the collected work of an author)

 Context examples 

On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)