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community singing

British  

noun

  1. singing, esp of hymns, by a large gathering of people

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The 12,000 sailors in Cromarty Firth worked off their energy by community singing, not "The Red Flag" but their own old ballad, "The Frothblowers' Anthem."

From Time Magazine Archive

For four days there were parades, fireworks, community singing and a great tooting of Alphorns.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was bobbing for apples, a game called "musical bumps," other Roosevelt family games without names, community singing.

From Time Magazine Archive

A onetime country schoolteacher, fond of speechifying and community singing, he started reporting for the Nashville Tennessean in 1926, eventually became its managing editor.

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It is a place where open-air meetings of all sorts, band concerts and community singing, may be held.

From The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

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