Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
A chorus leader, especially one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contests at Athens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Qualifier: Ancient Greece
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
(ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: leader
History
Borrowed from Latin chorāgus, from Doric Greek χορᾱγός (khorāgós), from χορός (khorós, “chorus”) + -ᾱγός (-āgós, Doric form of -ηγός (-ēgós, “-leader”)), literally “chorus-leader”. Compare Attic Greek χορηγός (khorēgós).
