Chorus: Definition and part of speech

Chorus

  1. n. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
  2. n. A band of singers and dancers.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. An interpreter in a dumb show or play.
  5. n. A company of singers singing in concert.
  6. n. A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
  7. n. 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 word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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