亚洲网紅露点

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choir

[ kwahyuhr ]

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.
    1. the part of a church occupied by the singers of the choir.
    2. 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.

choir

/ 办飞补瑟蓹 /

noun

  1. an organized group of singers, esp for singing in church services
    1. 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 Compare chancel
    2. ( as modifier )

      choir stalls

  2. a number of instruments of the same family playing together

    a brass choir

  3. Also calledchoir organ one of the manuals on an organ controlling a set of soft sweet-toned pipes Compare great swell
  4. any of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞肠丑辞颈谤藢濒颈办别, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠丑辞颈谤路濒颈办别 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of choir1

First recorded in 1250鈥1300; Middle English quer, from Old French cuer, from Latin chorus 鈥渃hoir,鈥 replacing Old English chor, from Latin; chorus
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of choir1

C13 quer, from Old French cuer, from Latin chorus
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. preach to the choir. preach to the choir.
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Example Sentences

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鈥淕ood News Mass鈥 incorporates a very large orchestra, a jazz combo, a narrator, R&B and gospel soloists, a gospel choir and a film.

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To accompany her flamboyant sermons, she employed a brass band, an orchestra and a 100-person choir.

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Whittaker, from nearby Wolverhampton, made a spectacular entrance as he danced in front of pyrotechnics while accompanied by a choir, but was met with jeers.

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She sums it up on Focus Is Power, held aloft by the sound of a gospel choir: "And now I see it clear with every passing of each year / I deserve to be here."

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I grew up doing some musicals and operas in Pittsburgh, and my mom is a music teacher so I was always in her choirs.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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