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noun

Chorus n. (pl. choruses)

(Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers. "The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers."

(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."

An interpreter in a dumb show or play. (Obs.)

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

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

(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.

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.

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"Chorus" Quotes from Famous Books

... Missionary, with his fine features lighted up with the fire of holy enthusiasm, surrounded by a crowd of dusky savages, armed with spears and war clubs, and partly clothed with feathers, in their features shewing traces of unusual excitement, and every now and then joining in a wild chorus, expressive of their wonder, could not have been witnessed by any ...

— The Little Savage • Captain Marryat

... think a minute. She was killed on the 29th of March, and he was not arrested until they had virtually convicted one of the chorus men of the murder. Pagani and Pavesi quarrelled, and the former openly accused his 'angel' of the crime. This led to an arrest just as the tenor was getting away on a ship ...

— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon

... now the sweet musician sung The court and chorus joined And filled the wondering wind, And taxes, taxes, through the ...

— History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

... apple-tree boughs in Harold Thornton's yard, Charlie, Eddie, and little Phil sang, "We three kings of Orient are," while the others joined in the chorus. At the song's close, the superintendent, swifter of foot than the pastor, overtook them with ...

— Stories Worth Rereading • Various

... Mr. Swinburne's prose writings, for in regard to the poetry of his own period the dissertations and judgments of one who combines high imaginative faculty with scientific mastery of the metrical art must have special value. Of the ordinary untrained criticism, the 'chorus of indolent reviewers,' to use Tennyson's phrase, he is, we think, too impatient. From a passage in his Dedicatory Epistle we gather that some of the tribe have ventured so far as to insinuate that poetry ought not to become a mere ...

— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

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