programme

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊɡɹæm/' IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊɡɹəm/

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• Homophone: program
• Hyphenation: pro‧gramme

programme (plural programmes)

1. Britain and New Zealand standard spelling of program.

   Our programme for today’s exercise class includes swimming and jogging.

   The programme about Greek architecture starts at 9:00 on Channel 4.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.

   • 1961, New Scientist (volume 9, number 226, page 679)

     Thus once a computer programme has been prepared, vastly different conditions can be inserted and experimented with at the expense of a few hours of computer time.

2. (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of program (“computer program”)

See usage notes at program.

• programme-maker
• programme parade
• rolling programme
• space programme

programme (third-person singular simple present programmes, present participle programming, simple past and past participle programmed)

1. Britain standard spelling of program.

• reprogramme

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma).

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.ɡʁam/

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programme m (plural programmes)

1. a program (set of structured activities)
2. a program (leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity)
3. a program (particular mindset or method of doing things)
4. (computing) a program (item of software; a computer program)

   Synonym: logiciel

• programme malveillant

• English: program
• Turkish: program

programme

1. inflection of programmer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “programme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”).

programme m (plural programmes)

1. (computing, etc.) program

• programmer (“to program”)