choregraphy

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A form of choreography — The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.

OriginFrench chorégraphie →
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Meanings

nounchoregraphy (countable and uncountable, plural choregraphies)

plural choregraphies

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of choreography.

    I could wiſh I had been skill’d in Choregraphy, to repreſent ſome of their Dances.

    1717, A Voyage to the South-sea, page 256

Origin

  1. Frenchchorégraphie
  2. Englishchoregraphy

Borrowed from French chorégraphie. It replaced earlier chorography in the dance sense (from χορός (khorós, “dance ring, round dance”) + -γραφία (-graphía); compare Greek χορογραφία (chorografía)), which had been used in 1710 as a translation of the same French term.

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APA

choregraphy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/choregraphy

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“choregraphy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/choregraphy. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “choregraphy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/choregraphy.

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