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Chorus   /kˈɔrəs/   Listen
noun
Chorus  n.  (pl. choruses)  
1.
(Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers. "The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers."
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."
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.


verb
Chorus  v. i.  (past & past part. chorused; pres. part. chorusing)  To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Chorus" Quotes from Famous Books



... sympathetic ear that offered; by that same token, Brenton seemed to the girl to be the more in need of calm protection. Reed, shut away from all the clamour, was powerless to defend himself. Brenton, timing his steps to the rhythm of the chorus, even giving an occasional metronomic signal to that chorus, was equally powerless to suppress it. The fact that the lack of power was in himself, not in circumstance: this only made it the more piteous. And Olive, listening, did pity Brenton, pity him increasingly, albeit with the pity ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... to make you dance, I truly know why there is music in leaves, and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth—when I ...
— The Crescent Moon • Rabindranath Tagore (trans.)
... several small articles, such as bits of wood or stone; he was then ready to commence treatment. After sucking and spitting pure blood a few times, he began to spit out with the blood, one after another, the things he had in his mouth, at the sight of which all the attendants would join in a chorus of grunts of astonishment, and the doctor would pretend to be very much nauseated. In most ordinary cases two or three treatments ...
— Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity - Their History, Customs and Traditions • Galen Clark
... obeyed, and for a time silence reigned, it was not long before they were all singing a gay song, started by Clem himself, even Quimby joining in the chorus with a feeble tenor. But they were tired of fishing by that time, and began to feel as if a little refreshment would not be out of place, and would indeed enhance the loveliness of Nature, so a fire ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... Sanitarium, a square white building several miles out of Las Vegas. Malone, in the first car, wondered briefly about the kind of patients they catered to? People driven mad by vingt-et-un or poker-dice? Neurotic chorus ponies? Gambling czars with delusions ...
— That Sweet Little Old Lady • Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)


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