Choir (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.
  2. any group of musicians or musical instruments; a musical company, or band, or a division of one: string choir.
  3. Architecture.
    • the part of a church occupied by the singers of the choir.
    • the part of a cruciform church east of the crossing.
  4. (in medieval angelology) one of the orders of angels.
adjective
  1. professed to recite or chant the divine office: a choir monk.
verb (used with or without object)
  1. to sing or sound in chorus.
Idioms
  1. See entry at preach to the choir.
noun
  1. an organized group of singers, esp for singing in church services
    • the part of a cathedral, abbey, or church in front of the altar, lined on both sides with benches, and used by the choir and clergy
    • (as modifier)
  2. a number of instruments of the same family playing together
  3. one of the manuals on an organ controlling a set of soft sweet-toned pipes
  4. any of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology
Choir (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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