noun
Etymology
Origin of chorister
1325–75; < Medieval Latin chorist ( a ) singer in a choir + -er 1; replacing Middle English queristre < Anglo-French, equivalent to quer choir + -istre -ist
Example Sentences
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Another chorister should have carried the cross that day, but Jones approached the bishop and told him all the other boys agreed he should do the job in front of the world's cameras.
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Among the musical performers are Melua, choristers from Westminster Abbey and a Cornish sea shanty group, Fisherman's Friends, who said the invitation to sing was "the icing on the cake for us".
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"Did we know it was going to be an amazing, international hit? No - we had no idea," chorister Evadne Anderson said.
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The Telegraph reported lyrics from the canticle written by a chorister included "Lord, how long shall the ungodly triumph?" and "how long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully?"
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She said that parishioner William Spencer and his chorister son George are among those trying to help.
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