Definition of chorus
- n. - A band of singers and dancers.
- n. - 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.
- n. - An interpreter in a dumb show or play.
- n. - A company of singers singing in concert.
- n. - A composition of two or more parts, each of which is
intended to be sung by a number of voices.
- n. - 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.
- n. - The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration;
as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
- v. i. - To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.