choir

IPA: kwˈaɪɝ

A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
(architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
(Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
A city in Govisümber, Mongolia

Examples of "choir" in Sentences

Preaching to the choir is a legitimate enterprise.
The problem is, the choir is asleep and will not wake up.
These various names were, in the Middle Ages, mostly superseded by the term choir, which in turn yielded to the modern term sanctuary.
As on Christmas, he was in choir dress, wearing the white Mozzetta of Eastertide, as well as a new white Easter stole, bearing his own coat of arms.
Nico Muhly's score, layering electronic beats, live ensemble and choir, is a tempest in itself, with textures and colours battering against each other in a dissonant blast.
I don't usually blog the pieces that our own choir is doing, mainly because it seems excessively solipsistic, but I was so touched at how this piece by Henry Purcell went that I figure there is a point to drawing your attention to it.
The conductor, head vocalist, and stage hand for this bookish choir is George Murray, who co-founded Bookninja with fellow author Peter Darbyshire back in 2003, when the phrase “book blog” still had to qualified with some form of descriptor for the web-challenged.