Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: choir
IPA transcription: [kw'aɪɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: choir
    Meaning: a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: choir, chorus
    Meaning: sing in a choir
Usage examples
  • REGINALD'S CHOIR TREAT
  • I want just to speak to him about the choir treat."
  • These are sung by the choir, and will be most impressive, I think.
  • It so happened that there was choir practice that very evening, and that I was at the chapel an hour or so.
  • When he went into the church the choir was singing, and one voice was so clear and beautiful, that he asked who it belonged to.
  • My dear, can you recall those verses entitled 'He Giveth the Increase,' that you composed for the choir of our church in Holly Springs?"
  • Upon the sounding of a bell the curtains are drawn back, the officiant tenses the image in silence with four double swings, and, as he ceases the choir sings the appointed antiphon."
  • But immediately, thereupon, was poured forth on the dim air such a stream of pearly sounds as if all the necklaces of some heavenly choir of woman-angels were broken, and the beads came pelting down in a cataract of hurtless hail.
  • In the south branch, a mile or two from the main Valley, is the Illilouette Fall, 600 feet high, one of the most beautiful of all the Yosemite choir, but to most people inaccessible as yet on account of its rough, steep, boulder-choked canyon.
  • A choir of one hundred and ten trained voices, led by the best conductor in Europe--the first tenor of this generation engaged, who sang the prayer from "Moses in Egypt"--a crowd of rabbis, and assistant-rabbis, with the grand rabbi of Paris at their head.