as in cantor
a member of a choir
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Recent Examples of chorister
In the Shadow of the Stars put the divas in the background to focus on the lives of 11 men and women choristers at the San Francisco opera house.
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Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Already Guerrero seems to be able to convey of-the-moment phrasings and character directions with a few emphatic motions—a roller-coaster swoop here, a waggle of the fingers there—and get an immediate response from the choristers.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Datebook Picks Across the street at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco Symphony labor negotiations have remained tense, with musicians and choristers staging multiple protests over artistic direction, compensation and financial transparency.
—Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2025
The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Already Guerrero seems to be able to convey of-the-moment phrasings and character directions with a few emphatic motions—a roller-coaster swoop here, a waggle of the fingers there—and get an immediate response from the choristers.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Datebook Picks Across the street at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco Symphony labor negotiations have remained tense, with musicians and choristers staging multiple protests over artistic direction, compensation and financial transparency.
—Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2025
The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chorister
Noun
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Brook has been an ordained cantor for about a decade.—
Zak Spector,
CBS News,
5 May 2026
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After the synagogue’s board voted to dismiss the cantor, scores of families who were loyal to him left.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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More screen time is given over to her burgeoning friendship with firebrand suffragette Mary, played by singer Lily Allen in a deliberately anachronistic performance — her forthright speech and manner beamed in directly from the 21st century.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
3 June 2026
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In 1952, Arnold had photographed actress and singer Marlene Dietrich in the recording studio, using her signature natural style — no set, posing or tripod.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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The main chanter was Obsidian Tiburon, a Taino representative of the American Indian Movement who came down from Orlando to attend the protest.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
29 Mar. 2025
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On a separate platform to the right of the action, three male chanters sit in a neat row, next to men playing the shamisen, a stringed instrument with a raw and piercing tone which is often used in vocal accompaniment.—
Jennifer Homans,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
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The two-night event pairs a live band, vocalist and full orchestra performing both Swift’s hits and deep cuts, with tickets ranging from $80 to $135.—
Ian Cummings,
Kansas City Star,
2 June 2026
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Rather, Cygnet was created to solve a problem specific to one of its founders, renowned classical vocalist Katherine Jenkins.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
1 June 2026
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How absurd, indeed, to imagine wild birds giving time like the mechanical songsters on an ornamental clock.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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Musicians including psych rocker Damon Krukowski and power pop songster Ted Leo have taken to X to blast out their support.—
Caitlin Harrington,
WIRED,
6 Oct. 2023
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“Chorister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chorister. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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