Choir
Choir ( ancient Greek χορός choros [ kʰorós ] "dance floor , round dance, round dance" or "singing with round dance") stands for:
- Choir (architecture) , chancel , detached part of a church with [main] altar
- Choir loft , Balko Nage in churches
- Choir (music) , community of singers in which each range of voices is multiple
- Choral music , musical work for singing voices, with instrumental accompaniment if necessary
- Choir (theater) , in ancient Greek tragedy, a group of actors, singers or dancers who comment on the action
- String choir , with stringed instruments a group of strings tuned in unison or in octaves, which are made to sound as a unit
- In the Renaissance and early Baroque periods, a partial ensemble that is set up in a separate location, see Venetian polychoir
- Register (accordion) , reed plate sets for accordions (mostly used in plural)
- Register (organ) , complete set of similar pipes from mixed voices on the organ
- Choir (unit) , German salt measure
The choir also stands for:
- Chor (river) , Siberian river
- River Chor , English River
- Chor (place) , urban-type settlement in the Khabarovsk region (Russia)
- Ancient Egyptian country name for the Syria-Palestine region, see Hurriter
- Khor Wirap Monastery , Armenian Monastery
- Chor Hooi Yee (* 1979), Malaysian badminton player
See also:
Wiktionary: Choir - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
