A chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony.
Roget 1000:
place of worship;
house of God,
house of prayer.
temple,
cathedral,
minster†,
church,
kirk,
chapel,
meetinghouse,
bethel†,
tabernacle,
conventicle,
basilica,
fane†,
holy place,
chantry†,
oratory.
synagogue;
mosque;
marabout†;
pantheon;
pagoda;
joss house†;
dogobah†,
tope;
kiosk;
kiack†,
masjid†.
[clergymen's residence]
parsonage,
rectory,
vicarage,
manse,
deanery,
glebe;
Vatican;
bishop's palace;
Lambeth.
altar,
shrine,
sanctuary,
Holy of Holies,
sanctum sanctorum [Lat.],
sacristy;
sacrarium†;
communion table,
holy table,
Lord's table;
table of the Lord;
pyx;
baptistery,
font;
piscina†,
stoup;
aumbry†;
sedile†;
reredos;
rood loft,
rood screen.
[parts of a church: list]
chancel,
quire,
choir,
nave,
aisle,
transept,
vestry,
crypt,
golgotha,
calvary,
Easter sepulcher;
stall,
pew;
pulpit,
ambo†,
lectern,
reading desk,
confessional,
prothesis†,
credence,
baldachin,
baldacchino†;
apse,
belfry;
chapter house;
presbytery;
anxious-bench,
anxious-seat;
diaconicum [Lat.],
jube†;
mourner's bench,
mourner's seat.
[exterior adjacent to a church]
cloisters,
churchyard.
monastery,
priory,
abbey,
friary,
convent,
nunnery,
cloister.
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Roget 416:
musician,
artiste,
performer,
player,
minstrel;
bard
etc.
(poet)
597;
[specific types of musicians]
accompanist,
accordionist,
instrumentalist,
organist,
pianist,
violinist,
flautist;
harper,
fiddler,
fifer†,
trumpeter,
piper,
drummer;
catgut scraper.
band,
orchestral waits.
vocalist,
melodist;
singer,
warbler;
songster,
chaunter†,
chauntress†,
songstress;
cantatrice†.
choir,
quire,
chorister;
chorus,
chorus singer;
liedertafel [G.].
nightingale,
philomel†,
thrush;
siren;
bulbul,
mavis;
Pierides;
sacred nine;
Orpheus,
Apollo†,
the Muses Erato,
Euterpe,
Terpsichore;
tuneful nine,
tuneful quire.
composer
etc.
413.
performance,
execution,
touch,
expression,
solmization†.
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Roget 996:
clergy,
clericals,
ministry,
priesthood,
presbytery,
the cloth,
the desk.
clergyman,
divine,
ecclesiastic,
churchman,
priest,
presbyter,
hierophant†,
pastor,
shepherd,
minister;
father,
father in Christ;
padre,
abbe,
cure;
patriarch;
reverend;
black coat;
confessor.
dignitaries of the church;
ecclesiarch†,
hierarch†;
ebdomarius [Lat.];
eminence,
reverence,
elder,
primate,
metropolitan,
archbishop,
bishop,
prelate,
diocesan,
suffragan†,
dean,
subdean†,
archdeacon,
prebendary,
canon,
rural dean,
rector,
parson,
vicar,
perpetual curate,
residentiary†,
beneficiary,
incumbent,
chaplain,
curate;
deacon,
deaconess;
preacher,
reader,
lecturer;
capitular†;
missionary,
propagandist,
Jesuit,
revivalist,
field preacher.
churchwarden,
sidesman†;
clerk,
precentor†,
choir;
almoner,
suisse [Fr.],
verger,
beadle,
sexton,
sacristan;
acolyth†,
acolothyst†,
acolyte,
altar boy;
chorister.
[Roman Catholic priesthood]
Pope,
Papa,
pontiff,
high priest,
cardinal;
ancient flamen†,
flamen†;
confessor,
penitentiary;
spiritual director.
cenobite,
conventual,
abbot,
prior,
monk,
friar,
lay brother,
beadsman†,
mendicant,
pilgrim,
palmer;
canon regular,
canon secular;
Franciscan,
Friars minor,
Minorites;
Observant,
Capuchin,
Dominican,
Carmelite;
Augustinian†;
Gilbertine;
Austin Friars†,
Black Friars,
White Friars,
Gray Friars,
Crossed Friars,
Crutched Friars;
Bonhomme [Fr.],
Carthusian,
Benedictine†,
Cistercian,
Trappist,
Cluniac,
Premonstatensian,
Maturine;
Templar,
Hospitaler;
Bernardine†,
Lorettine,
pillarist†,
stylite†.
abbess,
prioress,
canoness†;
religieuse [Fr.],
nun,
novice,
postulant.
[Under the Jewish dispensation]
prophet,
priest,
high priest,
Levite;
Rabbi,
Rabbin,
Rebbe;
scribe.
[Mohammedan etc.]
mullah,
muezzin,
ayatollah;
ulema,
imaum†,
imam,
sheik;
sufi;
kahin†,
kassis†;
mufti,
hadji,
dervish;
fakir,
faquir†;
brahmin†,
guru,
kaziaskier†,
poonghie†,
sanyasi†;
druid,
bonze†,
santon†,
abdal†,
Lama,
talapoin†,
caloyer†.
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Dutch: koor, cantorij, kerkkoor
Polish: schola