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单词 choirlike
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
choir /kwaɪr/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Music and Dancea group of singers, esp. performing in a church service.
  2. Music and Dancea group of instruments of the same kind:a brass choir.
See -chor-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
choir  (kwīər),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Music and Dancea company of singers, esp. an organized group employed in church service.
  2. Music and Danceany group of musicians or musical instruments;
    a musical company, or band, or a division of one:string choir.
  3. Architecture
    • the part of a church occupied by the singers of the choir.
    • the part of a cruciform church east of the crossing.
  4. Religion(in medieval angelology) one of the orders of angels.

adj. 
  1. Religionprofessed to recite or chant the divine office:a choir monk.

v.t., v.i. 
  1. Music and Danceto sing or sound in chorus.
  • Latin
  • Latin chorus chorus; replacing Old English chor choir
  • Old French cuer
  • Middle English quer 1250–1300
choirlike′, adj. 

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