Choir

Noun

 * 1) singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together
 * 2) the part of a church where the choir assembles for song
 * 3)  one of the nine ranks or orders of angels

Adjectives for Choir
soothing; plumed; enraptured; chantry; surpliced; cathedral; full-throated; extraordinary; immortal; starry; constellated; matin; white-robed; angelic; sweet-voiced; ritual; dusky; captive; silent; mystic; pausing; shining; winged; invisible.

Verbs for Choir
accompany —; coach —; compose —; conduct —; direct —; employ —; establish —; garb —; invite —; organize —; pitch —; regulate —; retain —; stimulate —; support—; train —; — answers; —anthems; — carols; — chants; — croaks; — croons; — devotes; — invokes; — situated; — performs ; —practices; — rehearses; — renders; — resounds.

Related terms
choral; chorus; quire

Thesaurus
chorus, claviature, cloisters, confessional, confessionary, console, crypt, diaconicon, diaconicum, echo, eighty-eight, ensemble, fingerboard, glee club, great, ivories, keyboard, keys, manual, mixed chorus, nave, oratorio society, organ manual, pedals, piano keys, porch, presbytery, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, singing club, solo, swell, transept, triforium, vestry, voices, a cappella, ambry, apse, baptistery, blindstory, chamber chorus, chancel, choral group, choral society, choral symphony, chorale,

Etymology
From undefined:, quere: from  quer: from  chorus:, from  χορός:. Modern spelling influenced by chorus: and Modern French chœur:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: koor kore
 * Basque: abesbatza, koru
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 合唱团
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: kuoro, kööri
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: χορωδία
 * Hebrew: מקהלה (maqhela)
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 聖歌隊 (せいかたい, seikatai)
 * Korean: 합창단
 * Latin:
 * Luhya:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: хор
 * Latin: hor
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:


 * Basque: koru
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: kruchta, kůr
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek: χορωδία


 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: хоры
 * Swedish:


 * German: Engelschor


 * Polish:

Anagrams

 * chiro
 * ichor

Etymology
From chair:, from  cadere:.

Verb
(past participle chu)


 * 1)  to fall

Synonyms

 * tomber