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chorus
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient Greece 2 A group of people in a play or performance who recite together. 3 A group of singers; singing group who perform together. 4 A repeated part of a song, also called the '''refrain'''. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Latin chorus "a dance in a circle, the persons singing and dancing, the chorus of a tragedy," from Greek khoros "band of dancers or singers, dance, dancing ground," perhaps from PIE *gher- "to grasp, enclose," if the original sense of the Greek ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any utterance produced simultaneously by a group; "a chorus of boos" a group of people assembled to sing together the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers [syn: refrain ] a body of dancers or singers who perform together [syn: ...
Usage examples of chorus.
His requests for specific equipment were met with a chorus of ready responses, the combined harshness of half a dozen Niyyuuan voices all attempting to answer at once leaving him wishing that his first ingredient was a hearty dose of acetylsalicylic acid.
The Swiss and the Anabaptists added their voices to this chorus of bibliolatry.
One lad, who did not train in the set of Andy and his friends, insisted on joining in the chorus with one of the singers, and matters got to such a pass that the manager rang down the curtain and threatened to stop the performance unless the students behaved.
And in their effort to keep themselves from being engulfed in the apostacy of a great leader, the scientists, as by a unanimous chorus, announce that the scientific dogmas which enter more or less essentially into their atheistic conception of the universe, are nothing but surmises!
Dionysms the Areopagite, the emperor, graciously recalling the Greek origin of this saint, sent a chorus of Greek priests, and the Franks were entranced not merely by their vestments and painted tapers, but by their dramatic genuflections and the ensemble of bass and treble voices.
A chorus of crickets kicked off all around them, a trilling cacophony rising in an asynchronous wall of sound.
Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?
Another door and I was in the backstage area, fighting my way through a pack of sweating, chattering chorus girls.
The Bajans danced feverishly to a chorus of drums that was unlike anything Isobel had ever heard.
When the first astonishing heads and busts from Ife and Benin were brought to Europe sixty years ago and were seen to be portraits, or very like portraits, they were greeted with a chorus of disbelief: surely they were Greek or Egyptian or even Portuguese, for Negroes had never done anything like that?
The fresh summer morning breathtakingly beautiful, but she barely noticed the pink blush of dawn or the riotous chorus of birdsong from the broadleaf maples lining the road.
Instantly the yellow-haired serfs in waiting, the Calmucks at the hall-door, and the half-witted dwarf who crawled around the table in his tow shirt, began laughing in chorus, as violently as they could.
The warrant was served upon Evan in his well-guarded hospital suite, with Cao and Ulanova serving as the Greek chorus.
As she helped Clubfoot sing the choruses, the white band thickened and thinned and thickened.
Mirandee and Clubfoot joined in, clear soprano and awkward bass, at chorus points that were not obvious.