in chorus

cho·rus  (kôrs, kr-)

n. pl. cho·rus·es

1. Music

a. A composition usually in four or more parts written for a large number of singers.

b. A refrain in which others, such as audience members, join a soloist in a song.

c. A line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a song.

d. A solo section based on the main melody of a popular song and played by a member of the group.

e. A body of singers who perform choral compositions, usually having more than one singer for each part.

f. A body of vocalists and dancers who support the soloists and leading performers in operas, musical comedies, and revues.

2.

a. A group of persons who speak or sing in unison a given part or composition in drama or poetry recitation.

b. An actor in Elizabethan drama who recites the prologue and epilogue to a play and sometimes comments on the action.

3.

a. A group of masked dancers who performed ceremonial songs at religious festivals in early Greek times.

b. The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.

c. The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.

4. A group or performer in a modern drama serving a purpose similar to the Greek chorus.

5. The performers of a choral ode, especially a Pindaric ode.

6.

a. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

b. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

c. The sounds so made.

tr. & intr.v. cho·rused or cho·russed, cho·rus·ing or cho·rus·sing, cho·rus·es or cho·rus·ses

To sing or utter in or as if in chorus.

Idiom:

in chorus

All together; in unison.

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[Latin, choral dance, from Greek khoros; see gher-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

in chorus - speaking or singing at the same time; simultaneously; "they shouted `Yes!' in unison"; "they responded in chorus to the teacher's questions" in unison