noun. An organized company of singers, especially one performing church music or singing in a church.

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noun. The part of a church used by such a company of singers.

noun. The part of the chancel in a cruciform church that is occupied by this company of singers.

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noun. A group of instruments of the same kind.

noun. A division of some pipe organs, containing pipes suitable for accompanying a choir.

noun. An organized group.

noun. One of the orders of angels.

intransitive verb. To sing in chorus.

To sing in company.

noun. All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond, eastward of or farther from the main entrance than the transept; the eastern arm of the cross: so named because the choir proper (see def. 3) is usually in that part of the church and occupies nearly all of it.

noun. A group of instruments of the same class or of related organ-stops, as a trombone choir, a diapason choir, etc.

noun. Any company of singers.

noun. An organized company of singers. Especially, such a company employed in church service.

noun. A choral society, especially one that performs sacred music. In eight-part music a chorus is divided into first and second choirs. In the Anglican Church, an official body consisting of the minor canons, the choral vicars, and the choristers connected with a cathedral, whose function is to perform the daily choral service. Such a choir is divided into two sections, called decani and cantoris, sitting on the right and left sides respectively; of these the decani side forms the leading or principal section. See cantoris, decani.

noun. That part of a church which is, or is considered as, appropriated for the use of the singers.

noun. A company; a band, originally of persons dancing to music: loosely applied to an assembly for any ceremonial purpose.

noun. Formerly and still occasionally quire.

noun. A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.

noun. That part of a church appropriated to the singers.

noun. The chancel.

noun. one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir.

noun. a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles.

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noun. the service of singing performed by the choir.

noun. Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together

noun. The part of a church where the choir assembles for song

noun. one of the nine ranks or orders of angels

noun. a family of similar musical instrument playing together

noun. a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony

noun. the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave

verb. sing in a choir

"These various names were, in the Middle Ages, mostly superseded by the term choir, which in turn yielded to the modern term sanctuary."

choir wall  

choral  chorus  quire  

area  chorus  set  sing  

Dyer  Meier  Meyer  Trier  acquire  

aisle  altar  chancel  chant  chapel  

Easter sepulcher  Liederkranz  Liedertafel  a cappella  ambry  

quire  

choired  choiring  choirs