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say it: OOV-ruh
oeuvre is a noun meaning "the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)". It is pronounced /ˈuvɹə/ — OOV-ruh. It carries one recorded sense.
the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
“he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre”
“Picasso's work can be divided into periods”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for oeuvre come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.