Results for performance

Definitions of performance:

part of speech: noun

Act of performing: carrying out of something: something done: public execution of anything: an act or action.

part of speech: noun

The carrying out or completion of a thing; an acting on the stage; an entertainment provided at any place of amusement; something written or produced; something done; a feat or exploit.

part of speech: noun

The carrying out of something; as, the performance of an undertaking; completion; a thing done: feat; a public exhibition, especially on the stage.

Usage examples for performance:

• The performance this time was not quite what it was when Zachariah had seen it in London. "The Revolution in Tanner's Lane", Mark Rutherford

• That performance was the most wonderful I ever listened to, and I feel confident no one but those who did hear this strange man can ever entertain any notion of his style or performance "Recollections of Old Liverpool", A Nonagenarian

• I hope you'll decide to do it, and in about ten or twenty years, when I'm an old married woman, I'll come to your first performance "Two Little Women on a Holiday", Carolyn Wells

• He was not much a man of the world, but he could read through the lines of a poor performance like this. "A Dog with a Bad Name", Talbot Baines Reed