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noun
1.
Music.
a.
a group of persons singing in unison.
b.
(in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers.
c.
a piece of music for singing in unison.
d.
a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
2.
simultaneous utterance in singing, speaking, shouting, etc.
3.
the sounds so uttered: a chorus of jeers.
4.
(in a musical show)
a.
a company of dancers and singers.
b.
the singing, dancing, or songs performed by such a company.
5.
EXPAND(in ancient Greece)
a.
a lyric poem, believed to have been in dithyrambic form, that was sung and danced to, originally as a religious rite, by a company of persons.
b.
an ode or series of odes sung by a group of actors in ancient Greek drama.
c.
the group of actors that performed the chorus and served as major participants in, commentators on, or as a supplement to the main action of the drama.
6.
COLLAPSETheater.
a.
a group of actors or a single actor having a function similar to that of the Greek chorus, as in Elizabethan drama.
b.
the part of a play performed by such a group or individual.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
7.
to sing or speak in chorus.
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Chorusing
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8.
in chorus, in unison; with all speaking or singing simultaneously: They responded in chorus to the minister's questions.
Origin:
1555–65; < Latin < Greek chorós a dance, band of dancers and singers
1555–65; < Latin < Greek chorós a dance, band of dancers and singers
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Word Origin & History
chorus
1561, from Gk. khoros "band of dancers or singers, dance, dancing ground," from PIE *ghoro-. In Attic tragedy, the khoros gave expression, between the acts, to the moral and religious sentiments evoked by the actions of the play. Originally used in theatrical sense; meaning of "a choir" first attested
EXPAND1656. Meaning "the refrain of a song" (which the audience joins in singing) is 1599. Chorus girl is 1894.
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