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Definition of Chorus

1. Verb. Utter in unison. "`yes,' the children chorused"

2. Noun. Any utterance produced simultaneously by a group. "A chorus of boos"

3. Verb. Sing in a choir. "Sam and Sue chorus"

4. Noun. A group of people assembled to sing together.

5. Noun. The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers.

6. Noun. A body of dancers or singers who perform together.

7. Noun. A company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play.

Definition of Chorus

1. n. A band of singers and dancers.

2. v. i. To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.

Definition of Chorus

1. Noun. A group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient Greece ¹

2. Noun. A group of people in a play or performance who recite together. ¹

3. Noun. A group of singers; singing group who perform together. ¹

4. Noun. A repeated part of a song, also called the '''refrain'''. ¹

5. Noun. A setting or feature in electronic music that makes one voice sound like many. ¹

6. Noun. (figuratively) A group of people or animals who make sounds together ¹

7. Noun. (theater) An actor who reads the opening and closing lines of a play. ¹

8. Verb. To echo a particular sentiment. ¹

9. Verb. To sing the chorus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chorus

1. to sing in unison [v -RUSED, -RUSING, -RUSES or -RUSSED, -RUSSING, -RUSSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chorus

chorometry choropleth map choros chorred chorrin chorring chors chorten chortens chortle

chortled chortler chortlers chortles chortling chorus (current term) chorus frog chorus girl chorus line chorused

choruses chorusing choruslike chorussed chorusses chorussing chose chose jugée chosen chosen aggression principle

Literary usage of Chorus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1889)
"It has been suggested that this number was due to the practice of each poet exhibiting four tragedies at a time. It is supposed that the original chorus ..."

2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The Aeschylean treatment of the chorus bears, in fact, some impress of the still recent ... Nothing could be more perfect than hú management of the chorus, ..."

3. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"Even though Diomedes declares that the Hi>inan comedy had no chorus, yet this is only true generally, for there is an undoubted chorus of ..."

4. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong, Roul Tunley (1883)
"We select the following beautiful specimen, because a chorus is introduced ... He clothed you delicately in purple, chorus. How are the mighty fallen in the ..."

5. Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas by Paul Decharme (1906)
"in the Medea, when the cries of the children whom their mother is slaying are heard, the chorus doubtless cannot avert, and ought not to avert, ..."

6. The Victrola Book of the Opera by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company (1919)
"Bass, and La Scala chorus (In Italian) I , _ ., , I Lucia—Mad Scene By Edith Helena, Soprano (In English))**' By Torres de Luna and La Scala chorus (In ..."

7. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by Charles Newell Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt (1920)
""The Hunter in his Career,' for double men's chorus and orchestra (Schott). ... 'We have fed our seas for a thousand years,' from Kipling, for chorus and ..."

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