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CHORUS, n.

1. A number of singers; a company of persons singing in concert.

2. The persons who are supposed to behold what passes in the acts of a tragedy, and sing their sentiments between the acts.

3. The song between the acts of a tragedy.

4. Verses of a song in which the company join the singer; or the union of a company with a singer, in repeating certain couplets or verses, at certain periods in a song.

5. A musical composition of two or more parts.

6. Among the Greeks, a chorus consisted of a number of singers and dancers.
1913 Definition
Chorus (chorus)
n.(?)
Cho"rus
; pl. Choruses (#). [L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr. (?). See Choir.]

  1. A band of singers and dancers.

    The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers.
    Dryden.

  2. 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.
    Milton.

  3. An interpreter in a dumb show or play.
    [Obs.]
  4. A company of singers singing in concert.
  5. A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
  6. 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.
  7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
  8. To sing in chorus] to exclaim simultaneously.
    W. D. Howells.

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