1
as in hymns
a religious song
practiced a chorale to perform in church
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2
as in choirs
an organized group of singers
a chorale that is regarded as being among the best in the state
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Recent Examples of chorales
The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Synchronized blinking faded when the researchers sped up the Bach chorales to 120 beats per minute.
—Jesse Greenspan, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Synchronized blinking faded when the researchers sped up the Bach chorales to 120 beats per minute.
—Jesse Greenspan, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chorales
Noun
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The album features mountain songs, ballads and folk hymns that celebrate traditional American music.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
4 June 2026
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The service of hymns and prayer will be followed by a memorial roll call of members of the armed services who died in active duty.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
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The party was woven into daily life in these hilltop communities, as Welsh as the mines and ironworks, the chapels and libraries, the male-voice choirs and rugby.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
6 May 2026
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Born in Glasgow in 1946, Ligertwood grew up singing in choirs and playing piano at home.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
4 May 2026
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People are fixating on celebrities of all kinds, accusing singers of body-positive anthems of being hypocritical, rolling their eyes at athletes promoting weight loss drugs and whispering about the thinness of their favorite movie stars.—
Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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The performance will be followed by a selection of anthems.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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People themselves keep those choruses alive.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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Unlike her first album, the compositions rarely built toward pop choruses or easy, identifiable emotion.—
Sam Sodomsky,
Pitchfork,
24 May 2026
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Chorales.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chorales. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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