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cho·rus   (kôr'əs, kōr'-)   
n.   pl. cho·rus·es
  1. Music

    1. A composition usually in four or more parts written for a large number of singers.

    2. A refrain in which others, such as audience members, join a soloist in a song.

    3. A line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a song.

    4. A solo section based on the main melody of a popular song and played by a member of the group.

    5. A body of singers who perform choral compositions, usually having more than one singer for each part.

    6. A body of vocalists and dancers who support the soloists and leading performers in operas, musical comedies, and revues.

    7. A group of persons who speak or sing in unison a given part or composition in drama or poetry recitation.

    8. An actor in Elizabethan drama who recites the prologue and epilogue to a play and sometimes comments on the action.

    9. A group of masked dancers who performed ceremonial songs at religious festivals in early Greek times.

    10. The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.

    11. The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.

    12. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

    13. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

    14. The sounds so made.

    1. A group of persons who speak or sing in unison a given part or composition in drama or poetry recitation.

    2. An actor in Elizabethan drama who recites the prologue and epilogue to a play and sometimes comments on the action.

    3. A group of masked dancers who performed ceremonial songs at religious festivals in early Greek times.

    4. The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.

    5. The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.

    6. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

    7. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

    8. The sounds so made.

    1. A group of masked dancers who performed ceremonial songs at religious festivals in early Greek times.

    2. The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.

    3. The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.

    4. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

    5. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

    6. The sounds so made.

  2. A group or performer in a modern drama serving a purpose similar to the Greek chorus.

  3. The performers of a choral ode, especially a Pindaric ode.

    1. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

    2. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

    3. The sounds so made.

tr. & intr.v.   cho·rused or cho·russed, cho·rus·ing or cho·rus·sing, cho·rus·es or cho·rus·ses
To sing or utter in or as if in chorus.

[Latin, choral dance, from Greek khoros; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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