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noun
The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
The art of creating and arranging any activities that involve social coordination or orchestration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
The dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The notation used to construct this record.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An organised display by fans in the stadium, involving props such as flags, banners, musical instruments and pyrotechnics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: tifo
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a show involving artistic dancing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stage dancing
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation, show
Narrower terms: ballet, concert dance, modern dance, apache dance, belly dance, belly dancing, danse du ventre, bolero, cakewalk, cancan, nude dancing
noun
a notation used by choreographers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: notation, notational system
Narrower terms: Labanotation
noun
the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: dance
History
Reshaping of earlier choregraphy, a borrowing from French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”) + -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā, “written form (of a word, etc.), spelling”). By surface analysis, choreo- + -graphy. Both choregraphy and choreography 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.
Across languages
76 source translations are retained for this English entry.
