"choreograph" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈkɒɹiəɡɹɑːf/ [UK], /ˈkɒɹiəɡɹæf/ [UK], /ˈkɔɹjəɡɹæf/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-choreograph.wav Forms: choreographs [present, singular, third-person], choreographing [participle, present], choreographed [participle, past], choreographed [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from choreography, equivalent to choreo- + -graph. Etymology templates: {{bf|en|choreography}} Back-formation from choreography, {{af|en|choreo-|-graph}} choreo- + -graph Head templates: {{en-verb}} choreograph (third-person singular simple present choreographs, present participle choreographing, simple past and past participle choreographed)
  1. (transitive) To design and record the choreography for a dramatic work such as a ballet. Tags: transitive Translations (to design and record a choreography): coreografiar (Catalan), 编舞 (biānwǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), suunnitella koreografia (Finnish), χορογραφώ (chorografó) (Greek), koreografál (Hungarian), coreografar (Portuguese), coreografiar (Spanish), koreografera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-choreograph-en-verb-Y7v3CqLY Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with choreo-, English terms suffixed with -graph, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English back-formations: 47 26 26 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 11 10 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with choreo-: 59 20 20 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -graph: 59 21 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 59 21 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 71 16 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 79 11 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 74 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 74 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 62 19 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 75 12 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 64 24 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 78 11 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 71 14 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 74 13 13 Disambiguation of 'to design and record a choreography': 93 4 3
  2. (transitive) To direct the development of a project; to orchestrate. Tags: transitive Translations (to direct the development of a project): johtaa projektia (Finnish), χορογραφώ (chorografó) (Greek), dirigir (Portuguese), gerenciar (Portuguese), gerir (Portuguese), protagonizar (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-choreograph-en-verb-6Enjrnwe Disambiguation of 'to direct the development of a project': 0 100 0
  3. (intransitive) To work as a choreographer. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-choreograph-en-verb-Xm-ArI-C
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: choreographable, overchoreograph, rechoreograph Related terms: choreographer, choreography

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (94ba7e1 and 5dea2a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.