Usually means: Ensemble of diverse musical instruments.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word orchestra:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. orchestra, the orchestra: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. orchestra: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orchestra: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orchestra: Collins English Dictionary
  5. orchestra: Vocabulary.com
  6. Orchestra, orchestra: Wordnik
  7. orchestra, the orchestra: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. orchestra: Wiktionary
  9. orchestra: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. orchestra: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. orchestra: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. orchestra: Dictionary.com
  13. orchestra: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. orchestra: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Orchestra (Eberhard Weber album), Orchestra (disambiguation), Orchestra, The Orchestra (app), The Orchestra (band), The Orchestra: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Orchestra: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. orchestra: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. orchestra: Rhymezone
  19. orchestra, orchestra: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. orchestra: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. orchestra: Free Dictionary
  22. orchestra: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. orchestra: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. orchestra: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. orchestra: Global Glossary
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Orchestra: Classical Music Guide

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orchestra: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ORCHESTRA: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See orchestras as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (music) A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.
noun:  A semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.
noun:  The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.

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