chorus

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By the way, I wonder how many of the chorus are alive to-night, 'said Dick.

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  1. noun Music A composition usually in four or more parts written for a large number of singers.
  2. noun Music A refrain in which others, such as audience members, join a soloist in a song.
  3. noun Music A line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a song.
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  • Kooper didn't have time to think -- the chorus was about to happen -- and so he just started banging on the ivory keys.
  • The ichor actually has naught to do with a chorus, being rather the Greek word for the ethereal fluid that flowed in the veins of the Gods in place of blood; it has in English taken on more practical meanings to do with emanating fluids.
  • After several minutes of silence they became aware of a distant, inhuman singing that seemed to resonate up from the earth and down from the sky; the chorus was a tapestry of long-sustained notes, but, though it was majestically tragic, it evoked only awe and humility in Crawford, for it was clearly not composed for human emotions A gentle rocking woke Crawford at dawn. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • The bridge builds like a proper bridge should, with the gorgeous 'Oooohs', and the chorus is the climax - a proper sing-a-long-at-the-top-of-your voice job.
  • And screeching above this chorus are all the rest of us. —  whoar.co.nz
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  1. Latin, choral dance, from Greek khoros; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin chorus, from Greek χορός, a dance accompanied with song, a band of singers and dancers, a chorus; prob. orig. a dance within an inclosure, or rather the inclosure itself; cf. χόρτος, an inclosure, hedge, = Latin hortus, garden, = English yard . For the earlier English and the Roman, etc., forms, see quire and choir.
  2. from chorus, n.
 

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