Word Meanings - CHORIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A singer in a choir; a chorister.

CHOIR
The chancel. Choir organ , one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary
SINGERESS
A songstress. Wyclif.
SINGER
One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: One employed to singe cloth. A machine for singeing cloth.
CHORISTER
1. One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. Dryden. 2. One who leads a choir in church music.
MINNESINGER
A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
MOUCHOIR
A handkerchief.
MASTERSINGER
One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
HISINGERITE
A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.
ANTECHOIR
A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers. Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.
RETROCHOIR
Any extension of a church behind the higggggggh altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
MEISTERSINGER
See MASTERSINGER