Definition of Chorus

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Chorus

A band of singers and dancers.

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.

An interpreter in a dumb show or play.

A company of singers singing in concert.

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

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.

To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.

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Chorus Quotations

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.
James Cagney

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
Lenny Kravitz

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
Abba Eban

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
Joanna Newsom

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.
Jeremy Irons

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.
Theodore White

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
Bobby McFerrin

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.
Tommy Shaw

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.
Ikue Mori

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
Florenz Ziegfeld

Chorus Translations

chorus in Danish is kor
chorus in Dutch is zangkoor, rei, koor
chorus in French is choeur, chorale
chorus in German is Chor
chorus in Italian is ritornello, coro
chorus in Spanish is coro

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