choir
a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.
any group of musicians or musical instruments; a musical company, or band, or a division of one: string choir.
Architecture.
the part of a church occupied by the singers of the choir.
the part of a cruciform church east of the crossing.
(in medieval angelology) one of the orders of angels.
professed to recite or chant the divine office: a choir monk.
to sing or sound in chorus.
Idioms about choir
preach to the choir. See entry at preach to the choir.
Origin of choir
1- Also Archaic, quire .
Other words from choir
- choir·like, adjective
Words that may be confused with choir
- choir , quire
Words Nearby choir
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How to use choir in a sentence
Singing and talking, particularly when done loudly, are risky activities, as researchers learned from the Washington choir practice that became a Covid-19 superspreader event.
As theater innovates worldwide, Broadway’s lights will stay off | Alexandra Ossola | October 9, 2020 | QuartzExperts have pointed to the spread of the virus in choirs, buses, fitness classes and other poorly ventilated spaces.
CDC says airborne transmission plays a role in coronavirus spread in a long-awaited update after a website error last month | Lena H. Sun, Ben Guarino | October 5, 2020 | Washington PostIf you look at superspreading events, for example the Washington choir case, it is impossible they are being spread by droplets.
This scientist made a Google Doc to educate the public about airborne coronavirus transmission | Niall Firth | October 2, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIn one notorious case, a single person at a choir practice in Washington state infected 52 others, leading to two deaths.
Why Vienna opera singers are ready to risk their lives to perform in a pandemic | Julia Belluz | September 30, 2020 | VoxA database of Covid-19 superspreading events around the world lists numerous choir practices and a few concerts as sources of contagion.
Why Vienna opera singers are ready to risk their lives to perform in a pandemic | Julia Belluz | September 30, 2020 | Vox
I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.
Here it is being performed by the Westminster Cathedral choir.
But I was a choir geek, and then got frustrated and took an acting class and realized that was the thing for me.
Michael C. Hall on Going Drag for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ and Exorcising ‘Dexter’ | Marlow Stern | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was in the vestry where the choir was putting on its garments.
Then, as I sat here on this “throne,” this beautiful choir struck my ears and senses.
The steady use of the organ for an hour-and-a-half's choir rehearsal would exhaust the batteries.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerWhen fifteen he became voluntary organist and choir-master to the Birkenhead School Chapel.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerB'lieves in candles and vestures; got Tim into the choir one Sunday, and now you can't keep him out of it.
The Cromptons | Mary J. HolmesThe body is an octagon of thirty-two feet diameter; and the choir, of the same shape, is twenty-one feet in diameter.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamThis is also a good point from which to study the clerestory as seen in choir and crossing.
Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey | Thomas Perkins
British Dictionary definitions for choir
/ (kwaɪə) /
an organized group of singers, esp for singing in church services
the part of a cathedral, abbey, or church in front of the altar, lined on both sides with benches, and used by the choir and clergy: Compare chancel
(as modifier): choir stalls
a number of instruments of the same family playing together: a brass choir
Also called: choir organ one of the manuals on an organ controlling a set of soft sweet-toned pipes: Compare great (def. 21), swell (def. 16)
any of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology
Origin of choir
1- Archaic spelling: quire
Derived forms of choir
- choirlike, adjective
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