Chorus /(?)/

pl. Choruses

1. A band of singers and dancers. (Antiq.)

   The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers.

2. 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. (Gr. Drama)

   What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic.

3. An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]
4. A company of singers singing in concert. (Mus.)
5. A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices. (Mus.)
6. 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. (Mus.)
7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

imp. & p. p. Chorused; p. pr. & vb. n. Chorusing

1. To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.