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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cho·rus n.; pl. Choruses
 1. Antiq. A band of singers and dancers.
    The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers.   --Dryden.
 2. Gr. Drama A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.
 What the lofty, grave tragedians taught
 In chorus or iambic.   --Milton.
 3. An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]
 4. Mus. A company of singers singing in concert.
 5. Mus. A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
 6. Mus. Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.
 7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.