Word Meanings - CHORUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A band of singers and dancers. The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. Dryden. (more info) accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr.

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• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• NOTHINGARIAN
  One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• CHORUS
  A band of singers and dancers. The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. Dryden. (more info) accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr.
• TRAGEDY
  1. A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life. Tragedy is to say
• NOTHER
  Neither; nor. Chaucer.
• GRECIAN
  Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek. Grecian bend, among women, an affected carriage of the body, the upper part being inclined forward. -- Grecian fire. See Greek fire, under Greek.
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• NOTHING
  A cipher; naught. Nothing but, only; no more than. Chaucer. -- To make nothing of. To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• ACCOMPANIER
  He who, or that which, accompanies. Lamb.
• ACCOMPANIST
  The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.
• ACCOMPANIMENT
  That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically:
• FIRSTBORN
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• NOTHINGISM
  Nihility; nothingness.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• NEGINOTH
  Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith. To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).
• MONOTHEIST
  One who believes that there is but one God.
• DO-NOTHINGISM; DO-NOTHINGNESS
  Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. Carlyle. Miss Austen.
• MONOTHECAL
  Having a single loculament.
• DEINOTHERIUM
  See DINOTHERIUM
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• GONOTHECA
  A capsule developed on certain hydroids , inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
• MONOTHEISM
  The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.
• HENOTHEISM
  Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest.