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choir
[ kwahyuhr ]
noun
- a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.
- any group of musicians or musical instruments; a musical company, or band, or a division of one:
string choir.
- Architecture.
- the part of a church occupied by the singers of the choir.
- the part of a cruciform church east of the crossing.
- (in medieval angelology) one of the orders of angels.
adjective
- professed to recite or chant the divine office:
a choir monk.
verb (used with or without object)
- to sing or sound in chorus.
choir
/ ɲɪə /
noun
- an organized group of singers, esp for singing in church services
- the part of a cathedral, abbey, or church in front of the altar, lined on both sides with benches, and used by the choir and clergy Compare chancel
- ( as modifier )
choir stalls
- a number of instruments of the same family playing together
a brass choir
- any of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology
Derived Forms
- ˈǾˌ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- Ǿ· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of choir1
Idioms and Phrases
- preach to the choir. preach to the choir.
Example Sentences
“Good News Mass” incorporates a very large orchestra, a jazz combo, a narrator, R&B and gospel soloists, a gospel choir and a film.
To accompany her flamboyant sermons, she employed a brass band, an orchestra and a 100-person choir.
Whittaker, from nearby Wolverhampton, made a spectacular entrance as he danced in front of pyrotechnics while accompanied by a choir, but was met with jeers.
She sums it up on Focus Is Power, held aloft by the sound of a gospel choir: "And now I see it clear with every passing of each year / I deserve to be here."
I grew up doing some musicals and operas in Pittsburgh, and my mom is a music teacher so I was always in her choirs.
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