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choir
English
Alternative forms
- quire (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek ????? (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and Modern French chœur. Doublet of chorus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kwa??(?)/
- Rhymes: -a??(r)
- (US) IPA(key): /kwa??/
- Rhymes: -a??
- Homophone: quire
Noun
choir (plural choirs)
- Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.
- (architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
- (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
- Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
Derived terms
- chorister
- Nikon choir
Related terms
- choral
- chorus
- quire
Translations
Verb
choir (third-person singular simple present choirs or quires, present participle choiring or quiring, simple past and past participle choired or quired)
- (intransitive) To sing in concert.
- 1859, The Presbyterian Magazine (volume 9, page 423)
- 1859, The Presbyterian Magazine (volume 9, page 423)
Anagrams
- chiro, chiro-, chori, ichor
French
Etymology
From Middle French cheoir, from Old French cheoir, from Vulgar Latin *cad?re, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cad?, from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?h?d- (“to fall”). Compare Norman caeir, Franco-Provençal chêre, Occitan caire, Catalan caure, Italian cadere, Spanish caer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wa?/
- Rhymes: -wa?
Verb
choir (defective) (past participle chu)
- (literary) to fall
- Synonym: tomber
Conjugation
This is a defective verb, only conjugated in certain tenses.
Derived terms
- chute
- déchoir
- échoir
- méchoir
- rechoir
Further reading
- “choir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [x???]
Noun
choir m
- Lenited form of coir.
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chorist
English
Etymology
French choriste.
Noun
chorist (plural chorists)
- A singer in a choir; a chorister.
Anagrams
- Christo-, ostrich, rhotics
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