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IMPROVISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does improvisation mean? 

IMPROVISATION (noun)
  The noun IMPROVISATION has 3 senses:

1. a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)play

2. an unplanned expedientplay

3. a performance given extempore without planning or preparationplay

  Familiarity information: IMPROVISATION used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPROVISATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

creation (an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone)

Derivation:

improvise (perform without preparation)


Sense 2

Meaning:

An unplanned expedient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

improvisation; temporary expedient

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

expedient (a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one)

Derivation:

improvise (perform without preparation)

improvise (manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand)


Sense 3

Meaning:

A performance given extempore without planning or preparation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

extemporisation; extemporization; improvisation

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

performance (the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment)

Derivation:

improvise (perform without preparation)


 Context examples 


The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black-letter editions.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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