choristers

noun

plural of chorister
as in singers
a member of a choir

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Recent Examples of choristers Founded in 1987, Ragazzi Boys Chorus provides musical education and performance opportunities for boys and young men ages 5-18, serving more than 230 choristers from over 100 schools in more than 30 Bay Area communities. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 7 June 2026 While many people have been introduced to English choral services through the angelic voices of the choristers in flowing robes and Elizabethan ruffs who sing at royal weddings and carol services, choirs perform every day in much more humble settings. — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026 More than 600 choristers will perform at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall in La Jolla Music Society’s Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026 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. — 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for choristers
  1. singers
  2. vocalists
  3. songsters
Noun
  • Almost everyone is naked, including opera singers, musicians, old women, disabled women, camerawomen, and women with no formal dance training.
    — Lauren Oyler, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • Now, over a year after the film’s premiere, the demand for merchandise is finally being fulfilled with the pending release of dolls of singers/demon hunters Rumi, Mira and Zoey from Mattel, role-playing toys from Hasbro and Funko Pops!
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of singers
Noun
  • Already regarded as one of the finest male jazz vocalists on the scene, the Los Angeles singer has yet to fully spread his wings.
    — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
  • Her three bandmates started a side project, Sweetback, collaborating with an array of vocalists on two albums in 1996 and 2004, while Matthewman has collaborated extensively with American neo soul star Maxwell.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 30 June 2026
Definition of vocalists
Noun
  • How absurd, indeed, to imagine wild birds giving time like the mechanical songsters on an ornamental clock.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of songsters

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