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say it: KAW-ruhs
chorus is a noun and verb meaning "any utterance produced simultaneously by a group". It is pronounced /ˈkɔɹəs/ — KAW-ruhs. It carries 7 recorded senses.
a group of people assembled to sing together
the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
a body of dancers or singers who perform together
a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
singing
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chorus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.