English Explanatory Dictionary

choreography

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
  2. The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
  3. The art of creating and arranging any activities that involve social coordination or orchestration.
  4. The dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution.
  5. The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
  6. The notation used to construct this record.

Pronunciation

/ˌkɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/ /ˌkɒɹiˈɒɡɹəfi/ en-au-choreography.ogg

Word forms

choreography choreographies

Etymology

Borrowed from French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”) + -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā, “written form (of a word, etc.), spelling”); By surface analysis, choreo- + -graphy.

Derived words

antichoreography choralography choreograph choreographer choreographic fight choreography handography swordography

Translations

Albanian: koreografi Arabic: كوريقرافيا Armenian: խորեոգրաֆիա Azerbaijani: xoreoqrafiya Belarusian: харэагра́фія Bulgarian: хореогра́фия Catalan: coreografia Chinese Mandarin: 舞蹈設計 /舞蹈设计 Chinese Mandarin: 編舞 /编舞 Czech: choreografie Danish: koreografi Dutch: choreografie Esperanto: koregrafio Estonian: koreograafia Finnish: koreografia French: chorégraphie Friulian: coreografie Georgian: ქორეოგრაფია German: Choreographie German: Choreografie Greek: χορογραφία Hungarian: koreográfia Indonesian: koreografi Irish: cóiréagrafaíocht Irish: córagrafaíocht Italian: coreografia Japanese: 振付 Japanese: 振り付け Kazakh: хореография Korean: 안무 Kyrgyz: хореография Latvian: horeogrāfija Lithuanian: choreografija Macedonian: кореографија Malay: koreografi Marathi: नृत्यदिग्दर्शन Norwegian Bokmål: koreografi Norwegian Nynorsk: koreografi Occitan: coregrafia Polish: choreografia Portuguese: coreografia Romanian: coregrafie Russian: хореогра́фия Serbo-Croatian: кореогра̀фија Serbo-Croatian: koreogràfija
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