DictionaryRoot: khoros
Greek

khoros

band of dancers and singers

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Three small sequential song-performance vignettes: solo singer, whole band and audience joining raised hands, solo singer, then same whole-band gesture repeated; repeated refrain visually emphasized without lyrics.
noun

chorus

KOR-us/ˈkɔːrəs/

The main section of a song repeated between verses.

Etymology

Greek khoros named a dance or a company of singers and dancers. The song sense developed through the refrain that an audience joins in singing, connecting the repeated passage with collective voices.

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