chorus
IPA: kˈɔrʌs
noun
- (Ancient Greece, historical)
- A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
- A song performed by the singers of such a group.
- (by extension, chiefly Britain, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
- A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
- (by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
- An instance of singing by a group of people.
- (figuratively)
- A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
- The noise or sound made by such a group.
- A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
- The opinion expressed by such a group.
- (music)
- A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
- A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain.
- The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
- A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
- (often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
- (Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
- (jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
- (Ancient Greece, historical) A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
- (Ancient Greece, historical) A song performed by the singers of such a group.
verb
- (transitive)
- To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
- To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
- (rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
- (intransitive)
- To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
- To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
- To echo in unison another person's words.
- Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
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Examples of "chorus" in Sentences
- "Do read some more," came in chorus from the girls, who were highly amused.
- To the chorus is added the mode of giving thanks, by a sacrifice and joyful singing
- The sound of their springing to life in chorus is the sign that the electricity has been cut again.
- A chorus is beginning to develop against more Fed action, which has come to be known as quantitative easing (QE).
- The chorus is still familiar to many people, but the verses are not as well known: (A “Lucifer” was a brand of match and a “fag,” of course, was a cigarette.)
- To the chorus is added, as a reason for praise, an example of the extreme distress from which they had been delivered -- extreme hunger, the severest privation of a journey in the desert.
- A commentary the next day on Sri Lankan state TV network, ITN, written by the editor of a state newspaper, Mahinda Abeysundara, said a businessman had bet about 18,000 dollars on a Pakistan victory and that there had therefore been what he called a "chorus to change the game".
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