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chorister

[kawr-uh-ster, kor-]
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noun
  1. a singer in a choir.
  2. a choirboy.
  3. a choir leader.
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Origin of chorister

1325–75; < Medieval Latin chorist(a) singer in a choir + -er1; replacing Middle English queristre < Anglo-French, equivalent to quer choir + -istre -ist
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Examples from the Web for chorister

Historical Examples

  • That sweet singer, the solitaire, is the chorister of the forest.

    Your National Parks

    Enos A. Mills

  • No smokes, no drinks, few if any eats—and not a chorister in sight.

    Angel Island

    Inez Haynes Gillmore

  • You are a member of the college school and a chorister, are you not?

  • "If he's a chorister, I'd like to go where he keeps his choir," said Rob.

    Nelly's Silver Mine

    Helen Hunt Jackson

  • And so, Harry, my boy, you have really made up your mind to be a chorister?

British Dictionary definitions for chorister

chorister

noun
  1. a singer in a choir, esp a choirboy
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Word Origin

C14: from Medieval Latin chorista
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Word Origin and History for chorister

n.

"member of a choir," mid-14c., queristre, from Anglo-French cueriste, French choriste, from Church Latin chorista, from Latin chorus (see chorus) + -ster. Modern form is from late 16c.

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