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Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A band of singers and dancers.

2. (n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.

3. (n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play.

4. (n.) A company of singers singing in concert.

5. (n.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

6. (n.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.

7. (n.) The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

8. (v. i.) To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.


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