choir

1. 1.

   sing in a choir

   Synonymschorus

   Broadersing

   music

Other forms of choir

plural

choirs·

past tense

choired·

present participle

choiring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about choir

What does choir mean?

choir means "a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in choir?

choir has 2 syllables: cho-ir. The stress falls on "cho". In IPA it is /ˈkwaɪɚ/.

What is another word for choir?

Close synonyms include consort, chorus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is choir a common word?

choir is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with choir?

3 words rhyme with choir. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.