0 a large orchestra (= a large group of musicians who play many different instruments together and are led by a conductor) that plays classical music:
He had a brief career as a harpsichord soloist with major symphony orchestras.
It was an attractive, sophisticated city with a symphony orchestra and an opera.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra showed that it belongs among the world's elite ensembles.
We had excellent choirs of schoolchildren, and the ability to pull down and reassemble musical instruments was demonstrated by a symphony orchestra.
By contrast liability does arise upon every employee or person engaged in radio, television, cinema, theatre, symphony orchestra, exhibitions, or any form of religious work.
The city is open with leafy-laned housing estates and a symphony orchestra.
Like the double bass, it is in every symphony orchestra.
There is no opera house and no national symphony orchestra.