English-Danish translations for chorus

• kor
  Vi er ikke tilfredse med at forblive et kor. We are not content to remain as a chorus.
  Vi er trætte af at være et græsk kor i denne tragedie. We are tired of being a Greek chorus in this tragedy.
  I dette kor af tvivlere lyder en række stemmer stadig højere. In this chorus of sceptics, a number of voices are becoming ever louder.
• omkvæd
  Stadig vedrørende sundhed genfinder man det evige liberale omkvæd i betænkningen: privatisering af den sociale sikringsordning. Talking about health, this report again echoes the unending liberal chorus: let's privatize social security.
  Det var det ord, der gik igen, og det omkvæd, som faktisk betød, at valget blev betragtet som enden på en politisk krise. That was the key word, the chorus which meant, indeed, that the elections were seen as the end of a political crisis.
  De fleste kender omkvædet til sangen "Rule Britannia", men får nogle gange ét ord helt galt. Most people are familiar with the chorus of the anthem 'Rule Britannia', but people sometimes get one word fundamentally wrong.

Definition of chorus

• A group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient Greece
• A group of singers; singing group who perform together
• A repeated part of a song
• The improvised solo section in a small group performance
• A setting or feature in electronic music that makes one voice sound like many
• The noise made by such a group
• An actor who reads the opening and closing lines of a play
• To sing or recite in chorus
• To say in unison; to express in unison
• To echo (a particular sentiment
• To sing the chorus (of a song
• To speak as if in chorus (about something
• To echo in unison another person's words
• To make their cry together

Examples

• The performance of the chorus was awe-inspiring and exhilarating
• The catchiest part of most songs is the chorus
• a chorus of crickets
• a chorus of whiners
• a chorus of shouts and catcalls

Related words

• Stesichorus
• chorus line
• chorus of honking
• chorus of hooting
• chorus of horns
• in chorus
• member of the chorus
• leader of chorus