choir
See also: chóir
English
Alternative forms
- quire (archaic)
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 Modern French chœur. Doublet of chorus.
Pronunciation
Noun
choir (plural choirs)
- Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- The church choir practices Thursday nights.
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- (architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
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- (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
- Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones are three of the choirs of angels.
- Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
singing group
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part of a church for choir assembly
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Middle French cheoir, from Old French cheoir, from Vulgar Latin *cadēre, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cadō, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”). Compare Franco-Provençal chêre, Occitan caire, Italian cadere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃwaʁ/
- Rhymes: -waʁ
Verb
choir (defective) (past participle chu)
Conjugation
This is a defective verb, only conjugated in certain tenses.
Conjugation of choir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | choir | avoir chu | |||||
| gerund | — | en ayant chu | |||||
| present participle | — | ||||||
| past participle | chu /ʃy/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | chois /ʃwa/ |
chois /ʃwa/ |
choit /ʃwa/ |
choyons /ʃwa.jɔ̃/ |
choyez /ʃwa.je/ |
choient /ʃwa/ |
| imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| past historic1 | chus /ʃy/ |
chus /ʃy/ |
chut /ʃy/ |
chûmes /ʃym/ |
chûtes /ʃyt/ |
churent /ʃyʁ/ | |
| future | choirai or cherrai /ʃwa.ʁe/ or /ʃɛ.ʁe/ |
choiras or cherras /ʃwa.ʁa/ or /ʃɛ.ʁa/ |
choira or cherra /ʃwa.ʁa/ or /ʃɛ.ʁa/ |
choirons or cherrons /ʃwa.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʃɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
choirez or cherrez /ʃwa.ʁe/ or /ʃɛ.ʁe/ |
choiront or cherront /ʃwa.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʃɛ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | choirais /ʃwaʁɛ/ |
choirais /ʃwaʁɛ/ |
choirait /ʃwaʁɛ/ |
choirions /ʃwaʁjɔ̃/ |
choiriez /ʃwaʁje/ |
choiraient /ʃwaʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| imperfect1 | — | — | chût /ʃy/ |
— | — | — | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Synonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “choir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [xɛɾʲ]
Noun
choir m
- Lenited form of coir.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| coir | choir | gcoir |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
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