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Croon vs Choir - What's the difference?

croon | choir |

As nouns the difference between croon and choir

is that croon is a soft or sentimental hum or song while choir is .

As a verb croon

is to hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.

As an adverb choir is

nearly, almost.

As an adjective choir is

.

croon

English

Verb

  • To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
  • * Charlotte Brontë
    • Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
  • To soothe by singing softly.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
  • (Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
    • (Jamieson)

    Derived terms

    * crooner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft or sentimental hum or song.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.” }}

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    choir

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (wikipedia choir) (en noun)
  • Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
  • The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir , where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.

    • Derived terms

    * chorister * Nikon choir

    Related terms

    * choral * chorus

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