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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chorus
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a roar/murmur/chorus of approval
▪ There were murmurs of approval from the crowd.
chorus girl
chorus line
dawn chorus
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dawn
▪ Few people have not woken to the sounds of the dawn chorus nor seen moths drawn to artificial lights as daylight fades.
▪ Having heard the evening chorus, I want to hear the dawn chorus as well.
▪ So do the birds that form the dawn chorus at Wayland.
▪ When I wake early to the dawn chorus, I turn my face into my pillow, hoping to prolong the dream.
▪ In woodland we stood and listened to the vociferous dawn chorus.
▪ The first birds were waking; the dawn chorus began.
▪ Day Six: With a salute from the dawn chorus, your cruiser leaves at 6.30am and heads back to Cologne.
girl
▪ Charlie was dancing with Madge again, and with one of the chorus girls called Isabel.
▪ She was not a good dancer, just a dancer, just a chorus girl.
▪ The chorus girls kissed him on the cheek for gratitude and the men smiled and said thank you.
▪ She apparently earned a little extra at weekends, by singing incognito as a chorus girl in somewhat shady theaters.
▪ She thought of the noise of the lodging houses with the chorus girls shrieking at each other and larking in the corridors.
▪ The chorus girls had taken to calling her Duchess, and Stephen they called the Duke.
▪ Those nights the chorus girls all kissed him goodnight on the cheek.
▪ I wouldn't be a chorus girl, I'd be a singer.
line
▪ While auditioning for the show, Lloyd Webber met a young dancer from the chorus line, Sarah Brightman.
▪ It is the equivalent of the Rockettes suddenly stumbling around the stage with a chorus line of all left feet.
▪ Janet was in the chorus as well as being understudy, and the chorus line would now be as it was before Lisa came.
■ VERB
hear
▪ I hear you all chorus!!
▪ Having heard the evening chorus, I want to hear the dawn chorus as well.
▪ It did a Big Ben chime, and I heard a chorus of kids' shouts from inside.
join
▪ Doctors, psychiatrists, police and civil servants have now joined a public chorus calling for tough, uniform national laws.
▪ He said the former president might join the chorus of high-ranking Republicans and former government officials urging Powell to join the ticket.
▪ Everyone is expected to join in the chorus.
▪ When he complained about the tax increase, he was joining the whiny chorus of local boys on the Ryder Cup team.
▪ He admired them duly and was forced to join in with a chorus of auld lang syne downstairs.
▪ With a glad sigh of relief, I joined the chorus of nods.
▪ Aylesbury's town mayor has joined the chorus of disapproval.
▪ State legislators and officials joined the chorus of promoters seeking Reclamation projects....
sing
▪ Voice trembling slightly, I sang the first chorus, mouth too near the mike, and glided towards the stool.
▪ What you need to sing in this chorus is a beautiful instrument, strong musical skills, commitment and a good heart.
▪ He was already beginning to mouth a little of it, picking up phrases sung by the chorus, trying out phonemes.
▪ She apparently earned a little extra at weekends, by singing incognito as a chorus girl in somewhat shady theaters.
▪ Class 1 started to sing the opening chorus.
▪ We have just sung a chorus accompanied by two amplified guitars.
▪ He had joined the choir school of Notre-Dame and had sung in the chorus of the Opera-Comique.
▪ They sing a buoyant chorus song and march around the stage whilst performing evolutions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the dawn chorus
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a 100-voice chorus
▪ Oslin got her start in the chorus of musicals like "Hello, Dolly!"and "West Side Story."
▪ The chorus's singing was excellent, and so was the orchestral playing.
▪ the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's Messiah
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the way your chorus backed you up-strong stuff!
▪ He admired them duly and was forced to join in with a chorus of auld lang syne downstairs.
▪ Jimmy Carter and George Bush also have joined a growing chorus of eminent senior politicians in the quest for reform.
▪ Lisa Fennell, in addition to her role in the chorus, was to understudy Désirée.
▪ That man seemed to know every chorus that had ever been written.
▪ The chorus produced by hundreds of males can be heard over a mile away.
▪ The first birds were waking; the dawn chorus began.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "What happened?" they chorused.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Throughout Britain, thousands of teenagers, offered a rude purgative to royal overkill, chorused a noisy amen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chorus

Chorus \Cho"rus\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chorused; p. pr. & vb. n. Chorusing.] To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.
--W. D. Howells. [1913 Webster] ||

Chorus

Chorus \Cho"rus\, n.; pl. Choruses. [L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr. ?. See Choir.]

  1. (Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers.

    The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers.
    --Dryden.

  2. (Gr. Drama) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.

    What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic.
    --Milton.

  3. An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]

  4. (Mus.) A company of singers singing in concert.

  5. (Mus.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

  6. (Mus.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.

  7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chorus

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 word is "enclosed dancing floor." Extension from dance to voice is because Attic drama arose from tales inserted in the intervals of the dance. In Attic tragedy, the khoros (of 12 or 15 (tragic) or 24 (comedic) persons) gave expression, between the acts, to the moral and religious sentiments evoked by the actions of the play.\n\nWhen a Poet wished to bring out a piece, he asked a Chorus from the Archon, and the expenses, being great, were defrayed by some rich citizen (the khoregos): it was furnished by the Tribe and trained originally by the Poet himself" [Liddell & Scott]\nOriginally in English used in theatrical sense; meaning of "a choir" first attested 1650s. Meaning "the refrain of a song" (which the audience joins in singing) is 1590s. As a verb, 1703, from the noun. Chorus girl is 1894.

Wiktionary
chorus

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'''. 5 A setting or feature in electronic music that makes one voice sound like many. 6 (context figuratively English) A group of people or animals who make sounds together 7 The noise made by such a group. vb. 1 To echo a particular sentiment. 2 To sing the chorus.

WordNet
chorus
  1. n. any utterance produced simultaneously by a group; "a chorus of boos"

  2. a group of people assembled to sing together

  3. the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers [syn: refrain]

  4. a body of dancers or singers who perform together [syn: chorus line]

  5. a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play [syn: Greek chorus]

  6. v. utter in unison; "`yes,' the children chorused"

  7. sing in a choir [syn: choir]

Wikipedia
Chorus (Erasure album)

Chorus, Erasure's fifth proper studio album, was released by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S. in 1991 (see 1991 in music); and on the short list of nominees for the 1992 Mercury Prize. In 1999, Ned Raggett ranked the album at number 45 in his list of "The Top 136 or So Albums of the Nineties".

Chorus

Chorus may refer to:

Chorus (Erasure song)

"Chorus" is a song by Erasure which is the first single and title track to the duo's fifth studio album Chorus. It was released in 1991 by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S. Produced by Martyn Phillips and written by Erasure members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, "Chorus" is an uptempo synthpop song featuring Clarke's signature electronic soundscapes and Phillips' pristine, computerized production.

Issued prior to the release of the Chorus album, the single returned Erasure to the upper-reaches of the UK singles chart, reaching number three. "Chorus" was also a success in Germany, where it peaked at number 17. The single became Erasure's first Billboard Hot 100 entry since "Stop!" in 1989, climbing to number 83. It was more successful on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where it peaked at number 14.

Chorus (song)
Chorus (Flying Saucer Attack album)

Chorus is the second compilation album by the experimental music band Flying Saucer Attack. It collects tracks from singles, compilation cuts, and the entirety of a John Peel radio session.

Chorus (1974 film)

Chorus was a 1974 Bengali film directed by noted Indian art film director Mrinal Sen. It was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize.

Chorus (gastropod)

Chorus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Chorus (Eberhard Weber album)

Chorus is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber featuring Jan Garbarek and Ralf-R. Hübner recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label.

Chorus (2015 film)

Chorus is a 2015 Canadian drama film written and directed by . It was screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. The film centres on Christophe ( Sébastien Ricard) and Irène ( Fanny Mallette), a former married couple still struggling to cope with the murder of their son eight years earlier.

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.