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chorus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek ????? (khorós). Doublet of choir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k????s/
  • Rhymes: -????s

Noun

chorus (plural choruses or chorusses or chori)

  1. A group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient Greece.
  2. A group of people in a play or performance who recite together.
  3. A group of singers; singing group who perform together.
  4. A repeated part of a song.
    Synonym: refrain
  5. (jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
    • 2002, Thomas E. Larson, History and Tradition of Jazz, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, [1]
      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, Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., [2]
      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—constrast is far more important than unity.
  6. A setting or feature in electronic music that makes one voice sound like many.
  7. (figuratively) A group of people or animals who make sounds together
  8. The noise made by such a group.
  9. (theater) An actor who reads the opening and closing lines of a play.

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To sing or recite in chorus.
    • 1826, Allan Cunningham, Paul Jones, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, Vol. II, Chapter V, p. 125, [4]
      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.
    • 1953, "Two-Way Scrutiny" in Time, 22 June, 1953, [5]
      [] 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.
    • 1993, Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West, translated by W. J. F. Jenner, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, Chapter 75,
      The devilish host chorused a paean of victory as they swarmed back.
    • 1999, Simon Schama, Rembrandt's Eyes, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Part Four, Chapter Seven, part i, p. 315,
      Elsewhere, within the walls of other charity houses, orphans' voices chorused hymns or recitations from Scripture []
  2. (transitive) To say in unison; to express in unison.
    • 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, Chapter IX, [6]
      The animals crowded round the van. "Good-bye, Boxer!" they chorused, "good-bye!"
    • 1955, Evelyn E. Smith, "Weather Prediction" in Isaac Asimov, Terry Carr and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), 100 Great Fantasy Short Stories, New York: Avon Books, 1984,
      The Cottons chorused grateful acknowledgement.
    • 1957, "The Quavering Chorus" in Time, 15 December, 1957, [7]
      From Peking to Berlin the rulers of the Communist world dutifully chorused delight at Khrushchev's coup.
    • 1981, Wole Soyinka, Aké: The Years of Childhood, Vintage, 1983, Chapter XIII, p. 194,
      Again the women chorussed their approval.
    • 1998, George Galloway, Hansard, 25 November, 1998, [8]
      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.
    • 2007, Dai Sijie, Once on a Moonless Night, translated by Adriana Hunter, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, Chapter 3,
      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!'
  3. (transitive) To echo (a particular sentiment).
    • 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, "Hop-Frog" [9]
      "Yes," said the King; "Come 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.
  4. (intransitive) To sing the chorus (of a song).
    • 1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D, Wednesday, 8th September, 1773, [10]
      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.
  5. (intransitive) To speak as if in chorus (about something).
    • 1933, "No Slice for Teachers" in Time, 14 August, 1933, [11]
      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, [12]
      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, [13]
      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.
  6. (intransitive) To echo in unison another person's words.
    • 1947, "Miracle Man" in Time, 20 October, 1947, [14]
      Then she shouted: "Viva our Lady of Grace," and the crowd chorused.
  7. (intransitive) (of animals) To make their cry 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.

Synonyms

  • (say in unison): duet

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

  • chorus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Chorus in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
  • “chorus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

  • urochs

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?.?ys/

Noun

chorus m (uncountable)

  1. chorus

Usage notes

Used almost exclusively in the phrase faire chorus.

Derived terms

  • faire chorus

References

  • “chorus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?k?o.rus/, [?k????s?]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ko.rus/, [?k???us]

Noun

chorus m (genitive chor?); second declension

  1. chorus (all forms)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • 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, 1883–1887)
  • chorus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[15], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • chorus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?[16]
  • 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

Etymology

From English chorus. Doublet of coro.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?k?.?us/

Noun

chorus m (plural chorus)

  1. (music) chorus (effect produced by mixing a signal with delayed and modulated copies of itself)

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song

English

Etymology

From Middle English song, sang, from Old English song, sang (noise, song, singing, chanting; poetry; a poem to be sung or recited, psalm, lay), from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (singing, song), from Proto-Indo-European *seng??- (to sing). Cognate with Scots sang, song (singing, song), Saterland Frisian Song (song), West Frisian sang (song), Dutch zang (song), Low German sang (song), German Sang (singing, song), Swedish sång (song), Norwegian Bokmål sang (song), Norwegian Nynorsk song (song), Icelandic söngur (song), Ancient Greek ???? (omph?, voice, oracle). More at sing.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /s??/
  • (US) IPA(key): /s??/, /s??/
  • Rhymes: -??

Noun

song (plural songs)

  1. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
  2. (by extension) Any musical composition.
  3. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
    • The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.
  4. The act or art of singing.
  5. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
    • 1833, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Canterbury Pilgrims
      That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
  6. (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
  7. A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
    • 1810, Benjamin Silliman, A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland
      his [a common soldier's] pay is a song.
    • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; [].
  8. An object of derision; a laughing stock.
    • And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • canticle
  • go for a song

Anagrams

  • NGOs, NGSO, Ngos, gons, nogs, snog

Atong (India)

Etymology

Cognate with Garo song. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

song

  1. village

Derived terms

References

  • van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Bikol Central

Noun

song

  1. rhinoceros beetle

Chuukese

Adjective

song

  1. angry

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English song. Doublet of zang.

Pronunciation

Noun

song m (plural songs)

  1. song
    Synonyms: lied, liedje

Derived terms


Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse sæing (bed), later sæng.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s??k/

Noun

song f (genitive singular songar or seingjar, plural seingir or sengur)

  1. bed

Declension

See also

  • kamar
  • sovikamar
  • svøvnposi
  • svøvnur
  • koddi

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

song

  1. village, hamlet
  2. classifier for villages

Derived terms

  • songjinma
  • songsal

Mandarin

Romanization

song

  1. Nonstandard spelling of s?ng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of s?ng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of sòng.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • sange, sang, songe, zang, zong, zonge, soong, songge

Etymology

From Old English sang, song, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s?n?/, /s??n?/, /san?/, /sa?n?/

Noun

song (plural songes)

  1. A song (lyrical music):
    1. Religious or spiritual chanting or hymns.
    2. A exposition or story, especially a sung one.
    3. A song supposed to have occult or magical power.
  2. The practice or an instance of singing songs.
  3. The sound produced by a bird (rarely other creatures)
  4. A tune; non-lyrical music.
  5. A quip, declaration, or remark.
  6. A poem; a written work in verse.

Declension

Derived terms

  • songly

Descendants

  • English: song
  • Scots: song, sang

References

  • “s??ng, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-24.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse s?ngr. Akin to English song.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s???/

Noun

song m (definite singular songen, indefinite plural songar, definite plural songane)

  1. song

Derived terms

Verb

song

  1. past tense of syngja, syngje, synga and synge

References

  • “song” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English song.

Noun

song

  1. song

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [saw??m??]
  • (Hu?) IPA(key): [?aw??m??]
  • (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [?aw??m??] ~ [saw??m??]
  • Homophone: xong

Etymology 1

Noun

(classifier cây) song • (????, ????, ????)

  1. big rattan

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (window).

Noun

song

  1. (archaic, literary) window
  2. Short for ch?n song (upright post in a paling or railing).
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (double; pair).

Prefix

song

  1. bi-; double; parallel
Derived terms

Adverb

song

  1. (formal) however
  2. (formal) but
Derived terms

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *so???, from Middle Chinese ? (MC ????, “two”). Cognate with Thai ??? (s???ng), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (s?ng), ??? (?oang), Tai Dam ???, Shan ???? (s?ang), Tai Nüa ???? (sóang), Ahom ???????????????? (song), Bouyei soongl.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /?o????/
  • Tone numbers: song1
  • Hyphenation: song

Numeral

song (Sawndip forms ? or ? or ?, old orthography so?)

  1. two
    • 2008, Rint Sybesma, Zhuang: A Tai language with some Sinitic characteristics, in From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics (edited by Pieter Muysken), page 246:
      De   fwngz   ndeu   yaeuj   ndaej   song   doengj   raemx   bae!
      3s    hand    one     raise    ACQ    two    bucket    water    PRT
      S/he can lift two buckets of water with one hand!

Usage notes

Used with ndeu rather than it.

Synonyms

  • ngeih

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