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US
/ˈkwaɪɝ/
]
[ UK /kwˈaɪə/ ]
[ UK /kwˈaɪə/ ]
NOUN
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
- the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave
VERB
- sing in a choir
How To Use choir In A Sentence
- The music promises to be superb:James MacMillan has been commissioned to write two pieces: one for choir, organ, brass and timps, the other for choir a cappella. Archive 2009-05-01
- To supplement his income, he taught private voice lessons in his home and sang in a church choir.
- Another tomb of interest (and of which we will speak in extenso in the next instalment of this series) is the tomb of the Pope Clement II, the only pope to be buried north of the Alps. The statue, sculpted by the same (unknown) sculptor as the Horseman, was originally the slab of the tomb, which remains on the west choir, behind the cathedra: Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
- There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- I played the organ on Sunday at First Presbytenan and rehearsed the choir on Thursday nights.
- At a time when they were still singing soupy Victorian hymns in churches, this choir performed relatively modem music.
- This led to some confusion about whether or not the men of the choir would intone the chant again.
- When the Ministers have said the Gloria at the altar, they go to sit in the sanctuary until the choir has finished singing.
- He soon became our church organist and also helped with the church choir.
- At some time in their lives, they've played the piano, flute, clarinet, violin and cello and sung in choirs.