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choir

noun
/kwaɪə(ɹ)/UK/kwaɪɚ/US/kʰwajr/

Etymology

From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and French chœur. Doublet of quire, chorus, and hora.

  1. derived from χορός
  2. derived from chorus
  3. derived from quer
  4. inherited from quer

Definitions

  1. A group of people who sing together

    A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.

    • The church choir practices Thursday nights.
    • Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.

  2. One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used…

    One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.

  3. One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.

    • Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones are three of the choirs of angels.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.

    2. To sing in concert.

      • The great aim of this book is to secure congregational singing, which the churches must come to, at last, after a long interval of choiring.

    3. A city in Govisümber, Mongolia.

      • The United States may seek access rights to an air base built by the Soviets outside the city of Choir in Mongolia.

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Derived

antechoir, antichoir, brass choir, choir boy, choirboy, choirchild, choirgirl, choirleader, choirless, choirlike, choirman, choirmaster, choirmate, choirmistress, choir organ, choir school, choir screen, choirstall, choir stall, choirwise, chorister, dawn choir, join the choir invisible, Nikon choir, polychoir, preach to the choir, retrochoir

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at choir. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at choir. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at choir

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA