cho romania (koromania)

[ middle area allotted to the chorus. See theater. Ham. This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king. Oph. You are as good as a chorus, my lord. Shak ., Hainlet, iii. 2. (c) One of the songs executed by the chorus.2. In music: (a) A company of singers, espe chough cially an organized company, such as singers in a church or a choral society. (b) In an oratorio, opera, or concert, the general company of singers, as distinguished from the soloists. (c) A part of a song in which the listeners join with the singer; a refrain; also, any recurring refrain or burden. (d) A musical composition intended to be sung in harmony by a company of singers, usually by four voices. A double chorus is for eight voices. (e) The compound or mixture stops of an organ. (f) In the tenth century, an instrument, probably the bagpipe. (g) In the fifteenth century, the drone of a bagpipe or of the accompaniment strings of the crowd. (h) Formerly, in Scotland, a loud trumpet.3. A union of voices or sounds, or a company of persons, resembling a chorus. O you chorus of indolent reviewers. Tennyson, Hendecasyllabics. 4. [ cap.] [NL.] In zoöl., a genus of mollusks. J. E. Gray.Cyclic chorus, in ancient Greece, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes: so called because the performers danced around the altar of Bacchus in a circle. See 1 ( a ), above. chorus (kõ'rus), v. t.; pret. and pp. chorused or choru ed, ppr. chorusing or choru ing. [ to chorus a song.-2. To exclaim or call out in IMG:content-0360.png:[blocks in formation]