Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

choregraphy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
choreg-ra-phy
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete form of choreography.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

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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Questions

What does choregraphy mean?
Obsolete form of choreography.
Where does choregraphy come from?
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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