Chorus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A band of singers and dancers.

II. Chorus ·noun An interpreter in a dumb show or play.

III. Chorus ·noun A company of singers singing in concert.

IV. Chorus ·vi To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.

V. Chorus ·noun The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

VI. Chorus ·noun A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

VII. Chorus ·noun 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.

VIII. Chorus ·noun 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.

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