chorusn.

Brit.

/ˈkɔːrəs/, U.S.

/ˈkɔrəs/

Forms: Plural choruses.

Etymology: < Latin chorus dance, band of dancers and singers, etc. (in medieval Latin, choir of a church), < Greek χορός dance, band of dancers, chorus (sense 1), etc. Compare choir n.

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a. Ancient Greek History. An organized band of singers and dancers in the religious festivals and dramatic performances of ancient Greece.

b. The song sung by the chorus.In the Attic tragedy, the chorus were ‘interested spectators’, sympathizing with the fortunes of the characters, and giving expression, between the ‘acts’, to the moral and religious sentiments evoked by the action of the play.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > song in Greek tragedy

chorus1606

antistrophea1620

monody1623

epode1671

parode1842

stasimon1861

1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 149 He introduceth Poets to sing Himnes to their Gods, and teacheth the maner of their Chori in their sacrifices.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 39 Intermingling her solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of halleluja's and harping symphonies.

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 164 The great chorusses, or interludes, were generally four in number.

1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca i. xxii. 100 Fifteen persons were to constitute a tragic chorus.

1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. xviii. 74 Æschylus..superintended the evolutions of his chorusses.

c. In English drama, imitated or adapted from the chorus of Attic tragedy, as in Gorboduc, and Milton's Samson Agonistes; by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists reduced to a single personage, who speaks the prologue, and explains or comments upon the course of events.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part

ruffy1502

chorus1561

prologuer1570

prologue1579

turquet1625

woman actor1633

underpart1679

epilogist1716

prologist1716

epiloguizer1748

old man1762

prologuizer1762

buffo1764

extrac1777

jeune premier1817

primo buffo1826

character actor1841

utility man1849

deuteragonist1855

character comedian1857

bit playera1859

utility actor1860

serio-comic1866

juvenile lead1870

serio-comique1870

heavy1880

utility1885

thinker1886

onnagata1889

serio1889

juvenile1890

tritagonist1890

oyama1925

juve1935

1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc Names of the Speakers Gorboduc..etc. Chorus, foure auncient and sage men of Brittaine.

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. D3 (Enter Chorus) What there he did in triall of his art, I leaue vntold.

1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iii Cornelia. Say gentle sisters, tell me, and believe It grieves me that I know not why you grieve. Chorus. O poor Cornelia, have not we good cause.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 233 Ya're as good as a Chorus my lord.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. i. (stage direct.) Enter Time, the Chorus .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Prol. 32 Admit me Chorus to this Historie.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 7 The Persons..Chorus of Danites.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xviii. 470 He is also accustomed to introduce a character as a sort of chorus, to detail the progress of events to his audience.

1878 H. James French Poets & Novelists (1884) 231 In this tale…the poet never plays chorus; situations speak for themselves.

d. figurative.

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1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) i. 21 Sighs are the Chorus in our Tragedie.

a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iv. iii. 168 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) But yours is pity, A noble Chorus to my wretched story.

†2. figurative. [ < Latin chorus, Greek χορός.] Applied to the company of planets, moving in rhythmical and regular order round the sun. (Cf. choir n. 6.)

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the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > planetary system

planetary system1699

chorus1701

planetarium1835

1701 Acct. Life in T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) sig. c^v The True System of the Universe, which places the Sun in the Center, and the Earth in the Planetary Chorus.

1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 87 The Sun, with its planetary Chorus dancing round it.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature §5. 80 The chorus of planets moving periodically, by uniform laws, in their several orbits about [the sun].

a. An organized band of singers, a choir; spec. the collective body of vocalists who sing the choral parts in an opera, oratorio, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing together

chorus1656

choiring1773

symphony1776

choristry1860

community singing1875

choralism1927

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > company of singers > [noun]

carol1483

choira1556

chore1641

chorus1656

choral society1858

schola cantorum1898

choral1942

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Chorus, a Company of Singers or Dancers, a Quire.

1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 15 While Heav'n's whole Chorus sings.

1862 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. from Italy & Switzerland 150 The orchestra and chorus here are like those in our second-rate provincial towns.

1863 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. 1833–47 59 The choruses got drunk..and rebelled against the manager.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 286 [Mendelssohn's] Antigone was brought out at Covent Garden on Jan. 2, 1845..Musically its success was not at first great, owing to the inadequate way in which the chorus was put on the stage.

b. A group of organ pipes or stops designed to be played together; a compound stop (see compound adj. 2f); also, the sound so produced.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > other stops

twenty-secondc1700

vox humana1708

chorus1776

decima1825

glockenspiel1825

unison stop1830

montre1876

pyramidon1876

harmonic stop1880

orage1891

pipe stop1906

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of organ

pealingc1475

organ notea1500

organ tone1820

bubble and squeak1960

chorus1961

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. x. 147 The compound stops..are so called for that in them several pipes are made to speak at the touch of a single key..and the full organ or chorus is compounded of all.

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 660/1 The term chorus reeds is applied to those [sc. reed stops] not suitable for solo use.

1961 C. Clutton in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages 63 The baroque organ was devised to afford a considerable range of well-balanced contrasted effects, which may be divided into the two main categories of ‘solo’ and ‘chorus’. An organ chorus consists of a number of ranks of roughly the same tonal quality and power, sounding at many different pitches.

a. The simultaneous utterance of song by a number of people; anything sung by many at once.

ΚΠ

1738 A. Pope Universal Prayer xiii. 7 One Chorus let all Being raise!

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. i. 6 Again broke, loud, clear, and silvery, the joyous chorus.

1862 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. from Italy & Switzerland 332 His organ..sounded like a full chorus of old women's voices.

b. transferred. The simultaneous utterance of any vocal sounds, as speech, laughter, etc., by a number of persons; the sounds so uttered. Also of animals, e.g. the ‘music’ of hounds in full cry.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [noun] > sound of voices > simultaneous

unison1619

chorus1735

1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 249 Hark! now again the Chorus fills.

1783 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 5 July Eight children in a small house will probably make a chorus not very diverting.

1862 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. from Italy & Switzerland 117 [They] broke into a chorus of loud laughter.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 97 A general chorus of bad language.

1881 J. Grant Cameronians I. iv. 58 All the dogs..kept up a chorus of mingled whining and barking.

c. in chorus: with simultaneous utterance; (singing, speaking, etc.) all together.

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the mind > language > speech > [adverb] > simultaneously

in chorus1805

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adverb] > in chorus

chorally1782

in chorus1805

1805 J. Foster Ess. ii. iv. 166 If all the nation were to laugh in chorus.

1851 C. Kingsley Yeast xiii [A song] of the lowest flash London school..was roared in chorus.

5. Music. A vocal composition for a considerable body of singers, written in any number of parts, but most usually in four, each part being sung by a number of voices. A double chorus is a chorus written for two choirs, usually in eight parts.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > [noun] > choral composition

chorus1744

semi-chorus1847

1744 Handel Lett. Jennens 2 Oct. Would not the words, ‘Tell it out among the Heathen that the Lord is King’, be sufficient for our Chorus?

1862 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. from Italy & Switzerland 40 If I were to take the first verse of ‘Vom Himmel hoch’ as a separate grand chorus.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 354 Choruses for 2 choirs are called double choruses..The two choirs answer one another, and the effect is quite different from that of 8 real parts.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 646 The Hallelujah Chorus in the Messiah is known to every one.

a. The refrain or burden of a song, which the audience join the performer in singing.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > a song > [noun] > refrain

refraid?a1439

overword?a1513

refrain1530

foot1538

counterverse1570

faburden1580

burden1598

holding1598

chorus1601

foreburden1603

bob1606

ludden1607

down1611

nonnya1616

rame?c1625

tag1717

overcome?a1800

overturn1825

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love Palinodia sig. M^v Amo. From Spanish shrugs..and all affected Humors. Chorus. Good Mercury defend vs.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. ii. 19 The commodore, the lieutenant and landlord joined in the chorus.

1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley vi Mr. Bodkin..bespoke a chorus to his chaunt.

1851 C. Kingsley Yeast xiii ‘Coorus, boys, coorus!’ and the chorus burst out, ‘Then here's a curse on varmers all’.

a1876 G. Dawson Lect. Songs Shaks. (1888) 45 The chorus of a song must be nonsense, or how could you expect the company to join in?

b. transferred.

ΚΠ

1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 50 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 558 The Souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 30 Unextinguishable laughter forms the chorus of conversation.

c. The main part of a modern popular song, as distinct from the introductory verse; also, an improvisation upon the main tune by one or more jazz musicians.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz

jazz1918

break1926

chorus1926

stop time1929

tag1929

lick1932

riff1933

ride1935

release1936

sock chorus1936

rideout1939

screamer1940

stop chords1941

chase1942

stop chorus1942

mop1945

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > a song > [noun] > main part of song

chorus1961

1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz x. 219 A half chorus of hot jazz and then..‘Ach, Du Lieber Augustine’ bring the orchestration to a close.

1929 Melody Maker Feb. 163/3 The first chorus, verse and second chorus showed the usual Whiteman perfection of orchestration.

1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz iii. 66 The term ‘hot’ chorus may be defined as a rhythmical rendering of the tune intended to increase its suitability for dancing.

1935 Hot News Aug. 15/1 The themes utilised in jazz consist generally of a ‘chorus’ and a ‘verse’.

1941 Musical Q. 26 53 Every jazz band provides for solo improvisation of a few choruses, usually accompanied at least by the rhythm section, and it is in this solo work that the great jazz players can best be studied.

1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 13 The Chorus of most popular songs is usually a 32-bar strain, although some of Cole Porter's songs, like ‘Begin the Beguine’, run as long as 100 measures.

1965 G. Melly Owning-up vi. 66 During Bruce Turner's first alto chorus.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

chorus-lady n.

ΚΠ

1870 Observer 9 Oct. 6/4 And we now know it is possible to get rid of the extraordinary chorus ladies who hitherto have been inseparable from opera.

1884 Graphic 13 Sept. 278/2 The ‘chorus-ladies’ fair and numerous.

chorus-leading n.

ΚΠ

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 147 A father taught the trade of flute-playing and chorus-leading and verse-making to his son.

chorus-loving adj.

ΚΠ

1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 505 I will celebrate thee with chorus-loving odes.

chorus-master n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > chorus-master

informator choristarum1664

chorus-master1820

choirmaster1860

1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 202 (note) The office of choregus, or chorus-master, was both honourable and expensive.

chorus-singer n.

ΚΠ

1813 Exam. 10 May 297/2 The lowest order of chorus-singers at Drury-Lane.

chorus-singing n.

ΚΠ

1903 A. W. Patterson Schumann 66 The chorus-singing had been excellent.

chorus-teacher n.

ΚΠ

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 147 Simonides exercised his calling of chorus-teacher at Carthæa in Ceos.

C2.

chorus-girl n. a young woman who sings or dances in the chorus of an opera, musical comedy, or revue.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > chorus-girl

monkey1871

follies1874

Gaiety girl1886

chorus-girl1894

pony1908

chorine1922

Ziegfeld girl1932

les girls1936

terp1937

1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. i. vi. 100 A certain little chorus girl came upon the scene and served to make both money and repentance scarcer even than they were before.

1907 Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 3/2 Elizabeth's two thoroughly vulgar chorus-girl friends.

1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being (1945) 80 For talking of their spiritual Beauty to chorus-girls.

Derivatives

chorus-like adj.

Draft additions June 2007

chorus line n. Theatre (originally U.S.) a group of (esp. female) dancers who perform synchronized routines, typically in a row, sometimes also singing; also in extended use.

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1898 Evening Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 19 Mar. 9/1 That same pretty girl..stepped out of the chorus line one night to have a try at one of the principal parts.

1972 Times 9 Feb. 14/5 The chorus line did a French-style can can, flipping their skirts to expose their thighs and panties.

2001 Maclean's 7 May 24/2 The police, the Kabuki chorus lines of robocops banging their shields with sticks.

2002 New Republic 20 May 37/1 She paid her dues in a chorus line..and was rewarded with a respectable..speaking part in the authors' next show.

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单词	chorus
释义	chorusn. Brit. /ˈkɔːrəs/, U.S. /ˈkɔrəs/ Forms: Plural choruses. Etymology: < Latin chorus dance, band of dancers and singers, etc. (in medieval Latin, choir of a church), < Greek χορός dance, band of dancers, chorus (sense 1), etc. Compare choir n. 1. Thesaurus » Categories » a. Ancient Greek History. An organized band of singers and dancers in the religious festivals and dramatic performances of ancient Greece. b. The song sung by the chorus.In the Attic tragedy, the chorus were ‘interested spectators’, sympathizing with the fortunes of the characters, and giving expression, between the ‘acts’, to the moral and religious sentiments evoked by the action of the play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > song in Greek tragedy chorus1606 antistrophea1620 monody1623 epode1671 parode1842 stasimon1861 1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 149 He introduceth Poets to sing Himnes to their Gods, and teacheth the maner of their Chori in their sacrifices. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 39 Intermingling her solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of halleluja's and harping symphonies. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 164 The great chorusses, or interludes, were generally four in number. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca i. xxii. 100 Fifteen persons were to constitute a tragic chorus. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. xviii. 74 Æschylus..superintended the evolutions of his chorusses. c. In English drama, imitated or adapted from the chorus of Attic tragedy, as in Gorboduc, and Milton's Samson Agonistes; by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists reduced to a single personage, who speaks the prologue, and explains or comments upon the course of events. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part ruffy1502 chorus1561 prologuer1570 prologue1579 turquet1625 woman actor1633 underpart1679 epilogist1716 prologist1716 epiloguizer1748 old man1762 prologuizer1762 buffo1764 extrac1777 jeune premier1817 primo buffo1826 character actor1841 utility man1849 deuteragonist1855 character comedian1857 bit playera1859 utility actor1860 serio-comic1866 juvenile lead1870 serio-comique1870 heavy1880 utility1885 thinker1886 onnagata1889 serio1889 juvenile1890 tritagonist1890 oyama1925 juve1935 1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc Names of the Speakers Gorboduc..etc. Chorus, foure auncient and sage men of Brittaine. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. D3 (Enter Chorus) What there he did in triall of his art, I leaue vntold. 1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iii Cornelia. Say gentle sisters, tell me, and believe It grieves me that I know not why you grieve. Chorus. O poor Cornelia, have not we good cause. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 233 Ya're as good as a Chorus my lord. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. i. (stage direct.) Enter Time, the Chorus . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Prol. 32 Admit me Chorus to this Historie. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 7 The Persons..Chorus of Danites. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xviii. 470 He is also accustomed to introduce a character as a sort of chorus, to detail the progress of events to his audience. 1878 H. James French Poets & Novelists (1884) 231 In this tale…the poet never plays chorus; situations speak for themselves. d. figurative. ΚΠ 1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) i. 21 Sighs are the Chorus in our Tragedie. a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iv. iii. 168 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) But yours is pity, A noble Chorus to my wretched story. †2. figurative. [ < Latin chorus, Greek χορός.] Applied to the company of planets, moving in rhythmical and regular order round the sun. (Cf. choir n. 6.) ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > planetary system planetary system1699 chorus1701 planetarium1835 1701 Acct. Life in T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) sig. c^v The True System of the Universe, which places the Sun in the Center, and the Earth in the Planetary Chorus. 1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 87 The Sun, with its planetary Chorus dancing round it. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature §5. 80 The chorus of planets moving periodically, by uniform laws, in their several orbits about [the sun]. 3. a. An organized band of singers, a choir; spec. the collective body of vocalists who sing the choral parts in an opera, oratorio, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing together chorus1656 choiring1773 symphony1776 choristry1860 community singing1875 choralism1927 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > company of singers > [noun] carol1483 choira1556 chore1641 chorus1656 choral society1858 schola cantorum1898 choral1942 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Chorus, a Company of Singers or Dancers, a Quire. 1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 15 While Heav'n's whole Chorus sings. 1862 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. from Italy & Switzerland 150 The orchestra and chorus here are like those in our second-rate provincial towns. 1863 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. 1833–47 59 The choruses got drunk..and rebelled against the manager. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 286 [Mendelssohn's] Antigone was brought out at Covent Garden on Jan. 2, 1845..Musically its success was not at first great, owing to the inadequate way in which the chorus was put on the stage. b. A group of organ pipes or stops designed to be played together; a compound stop (see compound adj. 2f); also, the sound so produced. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > other stops twenty-secondc1700 vox humana1708 chorus1776 decima1825 glockenspiel1825 unison stop1830 montre1876 pyramidon1876 harmonic stop1880 orage1891 pipe stop1906 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of organ pealingc1475 organ notea1500 organ tone1820 bubble and squeak1960 chorus1961 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. x. 147 The compound stops..are so called for that in them several pipes are made to speak at the touch of a single key..and the full organ or chorus is compounded of all. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 660/1 The term chorus reeds is applied to those [sc. reed stops] not suitable for solo use. 1961 C. Clutton in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages 63 The baroque organ was devised to afford a considerable range of well-balanced contrasted effects, which may be divided into the two main categories of ‘solo’ and ‘chorus’. An organ chorus consists of a number of ranks of roughly the same tonal quality and power, sounding at many different pitches. 4. a. The simultaneous utterance of song by a number of people; anything sung by many at once. ΚΠ 1738 A. Pope Universal Prayer xiii. 7 One Chorus let all Being raise! 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. i. 6 Again broke, loud, clear, and silvery, the joyous chorus. 1862 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. from Italy & Switzerland 332 His organ..sounded like a full chorus of old women's voices. b. transferred. The simultaneous utterance of any vocal sounds, as speech, laughter, etc., by a number of persons; the sounds so uttered. Also of animals, e.g. the ‘music’ of hounds in full cry. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [noun] > sound of voices > simultaneous unison1619 chorus1735 1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 249 Hark! now again the Chorus fills. 1783 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 5 July Eight children in a small house will probably make a chorus not very diverting. 1862 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. from Italy & Switzerland 117 [They] broke into a chorus of loud laughter. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 97 A general chorus of bad language. 1881 J. Grant Cameronians I. iv. 58 All the dogs..kept up a chorus of mingled whining and barking. c. in chorus: with simultaneous utterance; (singing, speaking, etc.) all together. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [adverb] > simultaneously in chorus1805 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adverb] > in chorus chorally1782 in chorus1805 1805 J. Foster Ess. ii. iv. 166 If all the nation were to laugh in chorus. 1851 C. Kingsley Yeast xiii [A song] of the lowest flash London school..was roared in chorus. 5. Music. A vocal composition for a considerable body of singers, written in any number of parts, but most usually in four, each part being sung by a number of voices. A double chorus is a chorus written for two choirs, usually in eight parts. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > [noun] > choral composition chorus1744 semi-chorus1847 1744 Handel Lett. Jennens 2 Oct. Would not the words, ‘Tell it out among the Heathen that the Lord is King’, be sufficient for our Chorus? 1862 E. Wallace tr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lett. from Italy & Switzerland 40 If I were to take the first verse of ‘Vom Himmel hoch’ as a separate grand chorus. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 354 Choruses for 2 choirs are called double choruses..The two choirs answer one another, and the effect is quite different from that of 8 real parts. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 646 The Hallelujah Chorus in the Messiah is known to every one. 6. a. The refrain or burden of a song, which the audience join the performer in singing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > a song > [noun] > refrain refraid?a1439 overword?a1513 refrain1530 foot1538 counterverse1570 faburden1580 burden1598 holding1598 chorus1601 foreburden1603 bob1606 ludden1607 down1611 nonnya1616 rame?c1625 tag1717 overcome?a1800 overturn1825 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love Palinodia sig. M^v Amo. From Spanish shrugs..and all affected Humors. Chorus. Good Mercury defend vs. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. ii. 19 The commodore, the lieutenant and landlord joined in the chorus. 1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley vi Mr. Bodkin..bespoke a chorus to his chaunt. 1851 C. Kingsley Yeast xiii ‘Coorus, boys, coorus!’ and the chorus burst out, ‘Then here's a curse on varmers all’. a1876 G. Dawson Lect. Songs Shaks. (1888) 45 The chorus of a song must be nonsense, or how could you expect the company to join in? b. transferred. ΚΠ 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 50 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 558 The Souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 30 Unextinguishable laughter forms the chorus of conversation. c. The main part of a modern popular song, as distinct from the introductory verse; also, an improvisation upon the main tune by one or more jazz musicians. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz jazz1918 break1926 chorus1926 stop time1929 tag1929 lick1932 riff1933 ride1935 release1936 sock chorus1936 rideout1939 screamer1940 stop chords1941 chase1942 stop chorus1942 mop1945 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > a song > [noun] > main part of song chorus1961 1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz x. 219 A half chorus of hot jazz and then..‘Ach, Du Lieber Augustine’ bring the orchestration to a close. 1929 Melody Maker Feb. 163/3 The first chorus, verse and second chorus showed the usual Whiteman perfection of orchestration. 1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz iii. 66 The term ‘hot’ chorus may be defined as a rhythmical rendering of the tune intended to increase its suitability for dancing. 1935 Hot News Aug. 15/1 The themes utilised in jazz consist generally of a ‘chorus’ and a ‘verse’. 1941 Musical Q. 26 53 Every jazz band provides for solo improvisation of a few choruses, usually accompanied at least by the rhythm section, and it is in this solo work that the great jazz players can best be studied. 1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 13 The Chorus of most popular songs is usually a 32-bar strain, although some of Cole Porter's songs, like ‘Begin the Beguine’, run as long as 100 measures. 1965 G. Melly Owning-up vi. 66 During Bruce Turner's first alto chorus. Compounds C1. General attributive. chorus-lady n. ΚΠ 1870 Observer 9 Oct. 6/4 And we now know it is possible to get rid of the extraordinary chorus ladies who hitherto have been inseparable from opera. 1884 Graphic 13 Sept. 278/2 The ‘chorus-ladies’ fair and numerous. chorus-leading n. ΚΠ 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 147 A father taught the trade of flute-playing and chorus-leading and verse-making to his son. chorus-loving adj. ΚΠ 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 505 I will celebrate thee with chorus-loving odes. chorus-master n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > chorus-master informator choristarum1664 chorus-master1820 choirmaster1860 1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 202 (note) The office of choregus, or chorus-master, was both honourable and expensive. chorus-singer n. ΚΠ 1813 Exam. 10 May 297/2 The lowest order of chorus-singers at Drury-Lane. chorus-singing n. ΚΠ 1903 A. W. Patterson Schumann 66 The chorus-singing had been excellent. chorus-teacher n. ΚΠ 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 147 Simonides exercised his calling of chorus-teacher at Carthæa in Ceos. C2. chorus-girl n. a young woman who sings or dances in the chorus of an opera, musical comedy, or revue. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > chorus-girl monkey1871 follies1874 Gaiety girl1886 chorus-girl1894 pony1908 chorine1922 Ziegfeld girl1932 les girls1936 terp1937 1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. i. vi. 100 A certain little chorus girl came upon the scene and served to make both money and repentance scarcer even than they were before. 1907 Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 3/2 Elizabeth's two thoroughly vulgar chorus-girl friends. 1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being (1945) 80 For talking of their spiritual Beauty to chorus-girls. Derivatives chorus-like adj. Draft additions June 2007 chorus line n. Theatre (originally U.S.) a group of (esp. female) dancers who perform synchronized routines, typically in a row, sometimes also singing; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1898 Evening Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 19 Mar. 9/1 That same pretty girl..stepped out of the chorus line one night to have a try at one of the principal parts. 1972 Times 9 Feb. 14/5 The chorus line did a French-style can can, flipping their skirts to expose their thighs and panties. 2001 Maclean's 7 May 24/2 The police, the Kabuki chorus lines of robocops banging their shields with sticks. 2002 New Republic 20 May 37/1 She paid her dues in a chorus line..and was rewarded with a respectable..speaking part in the authors' next show. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chorusv. Brit. /ˈkɔːrəs/, U.S. /ˈkɔrəs/ Forms: Past tense and participle chorused /-əst/. Etymology: < chorus n. 1. intransitive. To sing or speak in chorus. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > to sound (of voice or utterance) [verb (intransitive)] > utter sound > in chorus chorus1748 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > sing together choir1600 chorus1748 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xxx. 99 Then they all chorus'd upon me—Such a character as Miss Harlowe's! cry'd one—A lady of so much generosity..another. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. iv. 28 ‘Down with the manager!’ he cried. His satellites chorussed. 2. transitive. To sing or utter in chorus. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [verb (transitive)] > utter > in chorus chorus1826 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > sing in chorus choir1791 chorus1826 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. xiv. 362 All England was engaged in chorussing his favourite ditty. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. ii. 22 We all rose to our feet, and chorused the ‘Star-spangled Banner’. c1875 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Wooin' o't xxx ‘Wherever did Mrs. Berry pick up such people?’ chorussed the ladies of the family. 3. a. transitive. To furnish with a chorus or refrain, to sing the chorus of. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > sing refrain foota1556 chorus1701 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman ii. 55 Let ev'ry Song be Chorust with his Name. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales xx. 361 He seldom spoke, But sometimes sang and chorus'd—‘Hearts of Oak’. b. figurative. To add an expression of assent, etc., to (another's utterances); to ‘echo’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assent > [verb (transitive)] cordc1380 to give handsa1425 to fall to ——a1450 agree1472 to go into ——1540 astipulate1548 subscribe1560 seal1579 suffragate1606 give1621 assent1637 homologate1644 to take up with1673 affirmative1775 chorus1836 yea-say1887 yes1915 1836 E. Howard Rattlin xliv When I cry chorus, chorus me standing. Derivatives ˈchoruser n. (C. Lamb). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1561v.1701
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