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Music.��

1. a group of persons singing in unison.

2. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers.

3. a piece of music for singing in unison.

4. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.

simultaneous utterance in singing, speaking, shouting, etc.

the sounds so uttered.

(in a musical show)

1. a company of dancers and singers.

2. the singing, dancing, or songs performed by such a company.

(in ancient Greece)

1. a lyric poem, believed to have been in dithyrambic form, that was sung and danced to, originally as a religious rite, by a company of persons.

2. an ode or series of odes sung by a group of actors in ancient Greek drama.

3. the group of actors that performed the chorus and served as major participants in, commentators on, or as a supplement to the main action of the drama.

Theater.��

1. a group of actors or a single actor having a function similar to that of the Greek chorus, as in Elizabethan drama.

2. the part of a play performed by such a group or individual.