Usually means: Repeating section in a song.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. chorus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chorus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chorus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chorus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chorus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chorus, chorus: Wordnik
  7. chorus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chorus: Wiktionary
  9. chorus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chorus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chorus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chorus, chorus: Dictionary.com
  13. chorus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chorus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chorus (Eberhard Weber album), Chorus (Erasure album), Chorus (Erasure song), Chorus (Flying Saucer Attack album), Chorus (architecture), Chorus (disambiguation), Chorus (song), Chorus, The Chorus (Kiarostami film), The Chorus (soundtrack): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chorus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chorus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chorus: Rhymezone
  19. chorus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chorus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CHORUS, chorus: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. chorus: Free Dictionary
  23. chorus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. chorus: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chorus (disambiguation), Chorus (music), Chorus (song), chorus: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chorus: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Chorus: Game Dictionary
  3. Chorus (disambiguation), Chorus (music), Chorus (song), chorus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHORUS: Acronym Finder
  2. chorus: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chorus: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chorus: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See chorused as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (Ancient Greece, historical)
noun:  A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
noun:  A song performed by the singers of such a group.
noun:  (by extension, chiefly British, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
noun:  A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
noun:  (by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
noun:  An instance of singing by a group of people.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
noun:  The noise or sound made by such a group.
noun:  A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
noun:  The opinion expressed by such a group.
noun:  (music)
noun:  A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
noun:  A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain.
noun:  The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
noun:  A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
noun:  (often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
noun:  (Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
noun:  (jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
verb:  To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
verb:  (rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
verb:  To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
verb:  To echo in unison another person's words.
verb:  Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
noun:  (Ancient Greece, historical) A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
noun:  (Ancient Greece, historical) A song performed by the singers of such a group.

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