The definition of the word chorus

cho·rus

 (kôr′əs)

n. pl. cho·rus·es

1.

a. A group of singers who perform together, usually singing multi-part compositions with more than one singer for each part.

b. A group of vocalists and dancers who support the soloists and leading performers in operas, musical comedies, and revues.

2.

a. A musical composition usually in four or more parts written for a large number of singers.

b. A refrain in a song, especially one in which the soloist is joined by other performers or audience members.

c. A solo section based on the main melody of a popular song and played by a member of the group.

3.

a. A group of persons who speak or sing in unison a given part or composition in drama or poetry recitation.

b. An actor in Elizabethan drama who recites the prologue and epilogue to a play and sometimes comments on the action.

4.

a. A group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.

b. The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.

5.

a. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

b. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

c. A simultaneous production of sound by numerous animals: the midday chorus of cicadas.

d. A simultaneous production of sound by numerous inanimate objects: a chorus of lawnmowers from the neighborhood’s backyards.

tr. & intr.v. cho·rused, cho·rus·ing, cho·rus·es or cho·russed or cho·rus·sing or cho·rus·ses

To sing or utter in chorus.

Idiom:

in chorus

All together; in unison.

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chorus

(ˈkɔːrəs)

n, pl -ruses

1. (Music, other) a large choir of singers or a piece of music composed for such a choir

2. (Music, other) a body of singers or dancers who perform together, in contrast to principals or soloists

3. (Music, other) a section of a song in which a soloist is joined by a group of singers, esp in a recurring refrain

4. (Pop Music) an intermediate section of a pop song, blues, etc, as distinct from the verse

5. (Jazz) jazz any of a series of variations on a theme

6. (Poetry) (in ancient Greece)

a. a lyric poem sung by a group of dancers, originally as a religious rite

b. an ode or series of odes sung by a group of actors

7. (Theatre)

a. (in classical Greek drama) the actors who sang the chorus and commented on the action of the play

b. actors playing a similar role in any drama

8. (Theatre) (esp in Elizabethan drama)

a. the actor who spoke the prologue, etc

b. the part of the play spoken by this actor

9. a group of people or animals producing words or sounds simultaneously

10. any speech, song, or other utterance produced by a group of people or animals simultaneously: a chorus of sighs; the dawn chorus.

11. in chorus in unison

vb

to speak, sing, or utter (words, etc) in unison

[C16: from Latin, from Greek khoros]

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cho•rus

(ˈkɔr əs, ˈkoʊr-)

n., pl. -rus•es, n.

1.

a. a group of persons singing in unison.

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

c. a piece of music for singing in unison.

d. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usu. following each verse; refrain.

2. simultaneous utterance in singing, speaking, shouting, etc.

3. the sounds so uttered: a chorus of jeers.

4. (in a musical show) those performers in the company who sing or dance as a group and usu. do not play separate roles.

5. (in ancient Greece)

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

b. the group itself.

6.

a. an actor or group of actors functioning like the ancient Greek chorus, as in Elizabethan drama.

b. the role performed by this chorus.

v.t., v.i.

7. to sing or speak simultaneously.

Idioms:

in chorus, with everyone speaking or singing simultaneously; in unison.

[1555–65; < Latin < Greek chorós a dance, band of dancers and singers]

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

burden, refrain, chorus — The burden is the main theme or gist of a speech, book, or argument—or the refrain or chorus of a song.

See also related terms for refrain.

Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

Chorus

 a company of singers; a simultaneous outburst of speech. See also carol, choir.

Examples: chorus of bad language; of complaints; of conversation, 1845; of Greek actors; of laughter; of planets, 1660; of porpoises, 1698; of singers, 1656.

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

chorus

Past participle: chorused
Gerund: chorusing

Imperative
chorus
chorus

Present
I chorus
you chorus
he/she/it choruses
we chorus
you chorus
they chorus

Preterite
I chorused
you chorused
he/she/it chorused
we chorused
you chorused
they chorused

Present Continuous
I am chorusing
you are chorusing
he/she/it is chorusing
we are chorusing
you are chorusing
they are chorusing

Present Perfect
I have chorused
you have chorused
he/she/it has chorused
we have chorused
you have chorused
they have chorused

Past Continuous
I was chorusing
you were chorusing
he/she/it was chorusing
we were chorusing
you were chorusing
they were chorusing

Past Perfect
I had chorused
you had chorused
he/she/it had chorused
we had chorused
you had chorused
they had chorused

Future
I will chorus
you will chorus
he/she/it will chorus
we will chorus
you will chorus
they will chorus

Future Perfect
I will have chorused
you will have chorused
he/she/it will have chorused
we will have chorused
you will have chorused
they will have chorused

Future Continuous
I will be chorusing
you will be chorusing
he/she/it will be chorusing
we will be chorusing
you will be chorusing
they will be chorusing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been chorusing
you have been chorusing
he/she/it has been chorusing
we have been chorusing
you have been chorusing
they have been chorusing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been chorusing
you will have been chorusing
he/she/it will have been chorusing
we will have been chorusing
you will have been chorusing
they will have been chorusing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been chorusing
you had been chorusing
he/she/it had been chorusing
we had been chorusing
you had been chorusing
they had been chorusing

Conditional
I would chorus
you would chorus
he/she/it would chorus
we would chorus
you would chorus
they would chorus

Past Conditional
I would have chorused
you would have chorused
he/she/it would have chorused
we would have chorused
you would have chorused
they would have chorused

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Translations

хор, припев, рефрен, кордебалет, петь всем хором, повторять всем хором

существительное ↓

глагол ↓

Словосочетания

chorus boy — мальчик-хорист  
female chorus — женский хор  
male chorus — мужской хор  
mixed chorus — смешанный хор  
member of a chorus — певчий, хорист  
a chorus of praise — хор похвал  
anvil chorus — хор недовольных  
chorus girl — участница танцевально-хоровой группы; хористка  
chorus master — хормейстер  
chorus score — партитура для хора  

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Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: chorus
he/she/it: choruses
ing ф. (present participle): chorusing
2-я ф. (past tense): chorused
3-я ф. (past participle): chorused

noun
ед. ч.(singular): chorus
мн. ч.(plural): choruses

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The noun is borrowed from Medieval Latin chorus (“church choir”), Latin chorus (“group of dancers and singers; dance”), from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “group of dancers and singers, choir, chorus; dance accompanied by song; round dance”);^[1] further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to encircle, enclose”) or *ǵʰoros. Doublet of choir and hora.

The plural form chori is from Latin chorī, from Ancient Greek χοροί (khoroí).

The verb is derived from the noun.^[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːɹəs/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹəs/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəs
  • Hyphenation: chor‧us
• Plural (chori):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːɹaɪ/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹaɪ/

Noun[edit]

chorus (plural choruses or chorusses or chori)

1. (Ancient Greece, historical)
   1. A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.

      • 1603, Plutarch, “Why the Prophetesse Pythia Giveth No Answers Now from the Oracle in Verse or Meeter”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1199:

        [W]ee would that the voice and dialect of the propheteſſe Pythia, reſembling the ſpeech of a Chorus in a tragedie from a ſcaffold, ſhould pronounce her anſwers not in ſimple, plaine, and triviall termes, without any grace to ſet them out, but with Poeticall magnificence of high and ſtately verſes, diſguiſed as it were with metaphors and figurative phraſes, yea, and that which more is, with ſound of flute and hautboies: […]

   2. A song performed by the singers of such a group.
2. (by extension, chiefly Britain, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.

   • 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC; republished as Hermann Breymann, editor, Doctor Faustus (Englische Sprach- und Literaturdenkmale des 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts; 5; Marlowes Werke: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe […]; II), Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg: Verlag von Gebr[üder] Henninger, 1889, →OCLC, scene XIV, lines 1519–1521, page 196:

     Enter Chorus. / [Chor.] Cut is the branch that might haue growne ful straight, / And burned is Apolloes’s Laurell bough, / That sometime grew within this learned man: […]

   • 1600 (first performance)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Revels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act V, scene xi, page 267:

     Palinode. / Amo[rphus]. From ſpaniſh ſhrugs, french faces, ſmirks, irps, and all affected humours: / Chorvs. Good Mercvry defend vs.

   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 289, column 2:

     Enter Time, the Chorus. [stage direction]

3. A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.

   The performance of the chorus was awe-inspiring and exhilarating.

4. (by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
5. An instance of singing by a group of people.

   • 1848, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; […], volume I, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, book I (The Norman Visitor, the Saxon King, and the Danish Prophetess), page 6:

     But once out of sight of those fearful precincts, the psalm was forgotten, and again broke, loud, clear, and silvery, the joyous chorus.

6. (figuratively)
   1. A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.

      a chorus of crickets    a chorus of whiners

      • 2017 August 9, Shane Cashman, “The Moral History of Air-Conditioning”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

        More than just an appliance, the air conditioner is a memento mori. […] As summer proceeds, listen to the chorus of machines humming in the windows, outside the houses, atop the office buildings.

   2. The noise or sound made by such a group.

      a chorus of shouts and catcalls

      • 1848, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; […], volume I, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, book I (The Norman Visitor, the Saxon King, and the Danish Prophetess), pages 18–19:

        As she came to the last line [of a song], her soft low voice seemed to awaken a chorus of sprightly horns and trumpets, and certain other wind instruments peculiar to the music of that day.
7. (figuratively)
   1. A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.

      • 2022 November 2, “Windfall Taxes Are All the Rage. They Shouldn’t Be.”, in The Washington Post‎^[3]:

        So far, more than a dozen EU countries have either enacted a windfall tax or said they’re planning to. […] On Monday, US President Joe Biden joined the chorus, accusing oil companies of “war profiteering” and threatening them with big new levies if they fail to bring down consumer prices.

      • 2022 November 11, Hugo Lowell, “Rift in Trump’s inner circle over 2024 presidential campaign announcement”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

        Donald Trump’s top political staffers at Mar-a-Lago are pressing him to move forward with his planned 2024 presidential campaign announcement next week but a chorus of allies are suggesting delaying until after the Senate runoff in Georgia in December, according to sources familiar with the matter.

   2. The opinion expressed by such a group.

      • 2019 February 17, Jamiles Lartey, “Popular book on marijuana’s apparent dangers is pure alarmism, experts say”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

        On Friday, 75 scholars and clinicians signed an open letter, joining a chorus of disagreement with Berenson by arguing that “establishing marijuana as a causal link to violence at the individual level is both theoretically and empirically problematic”.

8. (music)
   1. A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
   2. A part of a song which is repeated between verses; a refrain.

      The catchiest part of most songs is the chorus.

      • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “An Account of Mr. Gamaliel Pickle. […]”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:

        [T]he commodore, the lieutenant, and landlord, joined in the chorus, repeating this elegant ſtanza: […]

      • 1862, T[homas] Oliphant; John Thomas, arranger, “No. 15. Nos Galan. New Year’s Eve. [Deck the Halls]”, in Welsh Melodies: With Welsh and English Poetry, London: Addison, Hollier & Lucas, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 140:

        See the flowing bowl before us, / Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! / Strike the harp and join the chorus. / Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!

   3. The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
   4. A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
   5. (often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
   6. (Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
   7. (jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.

      • 2002, Thomas E. Larson, History and Tradition of Jazz, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

        Of additional interest is the riff in the second chorus, which was later copied by Joe Garland and recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra as «In the Mood,» becoming the biggest hit of the Swing Era.

      • 2014, Thomas Brothers, “‘Some Kind of a God’”, in Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, New York, N.Y.; London: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 299:

        Jazz solos in the 1920s are much more about variety and discontinuity than unity and coherence. The explosive introduction, the instrutable and tender scat-clarinet dialogue, the spritely piano chorus, and the majestic trumpet chorus—contrast is far more important than unity.

Derived terms[edit]

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Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

chorus (third-person singular simple present choruses, present participle chorusing or chorussing, simple past and past participle chorused or chorussed)

1. (transitive)
   1. To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.

      Synonym: (of two people) duet

      • 1826, Allan Cunningham, chapter V, in Paul Jones; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, →OCLC, page 125:

        In the middle of the little woody bay, or rather basin, which received the scanty waters of the stream, an armed sloop lay at anchor, and he heard the din of license and carousal on board,—the hasty oath—the hearty laugh—and the boisterous song, chorussed by a score of rough voices, which made the bay re-echo.

      • 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter XIV, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 362:

        Shortly afterwards, all England was engaged in chorussing his favourite ditty— […]

      • 1953 June 22, “Great Britain: Two-way Scrutiny”, in Thomas Stanley Matthews, editor, Time‎^[6], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:

        But soon they streamed ashore, fresh-faced young sailormen in small and large parties directed by ship’s officers and Russian embassy guides. They drove to London, to Salisbury Cathedral, to Windsor Castle, chorusing sea chanteys and waving at girls.

      • 1955, Evelyn E. Smith, “Weather Prediction”, in Isaac Asimov, Terry Carr, and Martin H[arry] Greenberg, editors, 100 Great Fantasy Short Stories, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1984, →ISBN:

        The Cottons chorused grateful acknowledgement.

      • 1982–1984, Wu Cheng’en, “When the Heart Spirit Stays in the Home the Demons Submit; the Mother of Wood Helps Bring Monsters to the Truth”, in W[illiam] J[ohn] F[rancis] Jenner, transl., Journey to the West, volume III, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 178:

        The evil spirit caught up with him, unwound his trunk that was like a python, wrapped it around Pig and carried him back in triumph to the cave. The devilish host chorused a paean of victory as they swarmed back.

      • 1999, Simon Schama, “Amsterdam Anatomized”, in Rembrandt’s Eyes (A Borzoi Book), New York: N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, part 4 (The Prodigal), section i (The City in Five Senses), page 315:

        Elsewhere, within the walls of other charity houses, orphans’ voices chorused hymns or recitations from Scripture, […]

      • 2009, Dai Sijie, chapter 3, in Adriana Hunter, transl., Once on a Moonless Night (A Borzoi Book), 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 93:

        I also remember a Children’s Day celebration organised by our local academy where the little Westerners performed a piece called The Just War: […] They jumped right up and, while they were suspended in the air, drove their bayonets into an imaginary enemy’s throat, chorusing ‘Kill! kill! kill!’

   2. To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.

      • 1849 March 17​, Edgar Allan Poe, “Hop-Frog”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volume II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 458:

        «Yes,» said the king; «Come, Hop-Frog, lend us your assistance. Characters, my fine fellow; we stand in need of characters—all of us—ha! ha! ha!» and as this was seriously meant for a joke, his laugh was chorused by the seven.

   3. (rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
2. (intransitive)
   1. To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
      • 1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D, Wednesday, 8th September, 1773, [8]

        Malcolm sung an Erse song, the chorus of which was ‘Hatyin foam foam eri’, with words of his own. […] the boatmen and Mr M’Queen chorused, and all went well.

   2. To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.

      • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXX. Mr. Lovelace, to John Belford, Esq.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 99:

        Then they all chorus’d upon me—Such a character as Miſs Harlowe’s! cry’d one—A lady of ſo much generoſity and good ſenſe! another— […]

      • 1933, «No Slice for Teachers» in Time, 14 August, 1933, [9]

        Six State Commissioners of Education gloomily chorused about retrenchments, pay cuts and shut-down schools in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Washington, Massachusetts and Maine.

      • 1985, George Robertson, Hansard, 1 July, 1985, [10]

        Without an abatement agreement there would have been no chorusing from the government about the great success and triumph that Fontainebleau represented for Britain.

      • 1986, Anthony Winkler, The Painted Canoe, University of Chicago Press, Chapter 2, p. 20, [11]

        Others in the crowded bus, having nothing better to do, took up the cry, and soon many of the higglers were chorusing about the ugliness of the fisherman playing dominoes.

      • 1998, George Galloway, Hansard, 25 November, 1998, [12]

        When I asked that question in the House recently, a number of Tel Aviv’s little echoes in the Chamber chorused that Israel was a democracy.

   3. To echo in unison another person’s words.
      • 1947, «Miracle Man» in Time, 20 October, 1947, [13]

        Then she shouted: «Viva our Lady of Grace,» and the crowd chorused.

   4. Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
      • 1987, Tanith Lee, Night’s Sorceries, New York: Daw Books, p. 122,

        Then the cocks began to crow in the town beneath the hill, and the birds chorused in the fields, and a pale yellow poppy colored the east.

      • 1998, Italo Calvino, The Path to the Spiders’ Nests, translated by Archibald Colquhoun, revised by Martin McLaughlin, Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1998, Chapter Two, p. 51,

        The hens are now sleeping in rows on their perches in the coops, and the frogs are out of the water and chorusing away along the bed of the whole torrent, from source to mouth.

Derived terms[edit]

• choruser
• out-chorus

Translations[edit]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

• urochs

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin chorus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós). Doublet of chœur.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁys/

Noun[edit]

chorus m (uncountable)

1. chorus

   Synonym: (more common) chœur

2. (music) refrain of a song
3. (jazz music) improvisation by a soloist for part of all of a theme

   1947, Hugues Panassié, Cinq mois à New-York, Éditions Corrêa, page 89:

   Willie Smith prend une série de chorus incroyables sur Hocus Pocus, tirant de son instrument des notes suraiguës qui n’existent pas sur le doigté officiel du saxophone alto.

   (please add an English translation of this quote)

4. an audio effect used on the electric guitar to give the impression that multiple musical instruments are playing at the same time

Usage notes[edit]

Used almost exclusively in the phrase faire chorus.

Derived terms[edit]

• faire chorus

Further reading[edit]

• “chorus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek χορός (khorós), a group of actors who recite and sing together.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰo.rus/, [ˈkʰɔrʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.rus/, [ˈkɔːrus]

Noun[edit]

chorus m (genitive chorī); second declension

1. chorus (all forms)

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	chorus	chorī
Genitive	chorī	chorōrum
Dative	chorō	chorīs
Accusative	chorum	chorōs
Ablative	chorō	chorīs
Vocative	chore	chorī

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• chorāgium
• chorāgus

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

• “chorus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “chorus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chorus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• chorus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[14], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the Chorus in Tragedy: caterva, chorus
  • a choric ode in a tragedy: carmen chori, canticum
• “chorus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[15]
• “chorus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “chorus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English chorus. Doublet of coro.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

chorus m (invariable)

1. (music) chorus (effect produced by mixing a signal with delayed and modulated copies of itself)
   • 1986, Paulo Anis Lima, Trip, page 75:

     Ele usa um baixo Ken Smith, standard, de 5 cordas, com pedal oitavador e chorus.

     He plays a standard, 5-string Ken Smith bass, with an octaver pedal and chorus.

   • 2010, Antonio Adolfo, Arranjo: um enfoque atual, Lumiar Editora, page 64:

     Podem ser conseguidos a partir de efeitos como o chorus, delay, flanger ou compressor/limitador, phase-shift e pitch transposer.

     [These] may be achieved by means of effects such as chorus, delay, flanging, compression/gate, phase-shift and pitch transposition.

   • 2016, Daniel Luiz Alves, Desvendando Seu Setup: Como melhorar seu som, Clube de Autores, page 65:

     O flanger permite então vários ajustes, desde um chorus comum (é só deixar o botão Res ou Resonance ou Feedback no zero e ajustar o Depth e o Rate) […]

     Thus, the flanger permits various adjustments, from a simple chorus (just set the Res or Resonance or Feedback knob to zero and adjust the Depth and Rate [knobs]) […]