choir – English noun declension

English noun forms of choir

Noun: choir
Singularchoir
Pluralchoirs

Sample Sentences

  • The church choir practices Thursday nights.
  • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events. [2020 April 24, Oscar Holland, “How North Korea’s ideology is built on song and dance”, in CNN:]
  • Public health officials studying the Covid-19 outbreak among members of a Washington choir found numerous ways the virus could have spread, according to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [2020 May 13, David Williams, “How coronavirus spread from one member to 87% of the singers at a Washington choir practice”, in CNN:]
  • Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones are three of the choirs of angels.
  • She is surrounded by a choir of angels [1876, John Murray, A Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium, page 146:]
  • The right wing contains S. Francis receiving the Stigmata, beneath which the Virgin and Saviour (the Saviour is in the act of benediction) are represented on a common throne surrounded by a choir of angels. [1909, Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, A New History of Painting in Italy, page 16:]
  • Third miniature, Christ on a journey met by a choir of angels with musical instruments [1889, John William Bradley, A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists With References to Their Works, and Notices of Their Patrons, from the Establishment of Christianity to the Eighteenth Century, volume 3:]
  • Mary C. Neal who, after drowning in a river in 1999, reported being greeted by a choir of angels who not only offered her comfort but also imparted profound teachings about the purpose of existence and the interconnectedness of all souls [2026, Natalia Martinez, The Book of Angels and Archangels:]

Etymology

From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and French chœur. Doublet of quire, chorus, and hora. Displaced native Old English hād. See: Middle English Nouns 'quer', Latin Nouns 'chorus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'χορός'.

Verbs referencing "choir"

Zulu Nouns ikhwaya.