The group of actors that performed the chorus and served as major participants in, commentators on, or as a supplement to the main action of the drama.
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From Latin chorus, “a dance in a circle, the persons singing and dancing, the chorus of a tragedy,” from Greek khoros, “round dance; dancing-place; band of dancers; choir,”; in Attic tragedy, the khoros gave expression, between the acts, to the moral and religious sentiments evoked by the actions of the play:
from 1560s.
The Wild Life of Scots
“No one denies there is Scots speech. The politically motivated ding-dong about whether it’s a language or a dialect or ‘just slang’ is very wearisome. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a duck.”