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choreographic

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — choreography sits at #8,740mostly written

Choreographic means to do with the arranging of dance steps. A choreographic decision.

It covers the composition rather than the dancing, which are separate skills. Choreographic work is protected by copyright in a way it was not for most of history.

Definitions of choreographic

  1. 1adjectivechoreographicTo do with the arranging of dance steps.C1

    “The choreographic notes ran to two hundred pages.”

choreographic is a quality.

Where it comes from

From choreography, Greek khoreia, dancing, plus graphia, writing.

  1. Ancient Greek

    χορεία — dance

  2. French

    chorégraphie

  3. English

    choreography

  4. English, today

    choreographic

Built from

  • -γραφίᾱ · Ancient Greek — written form (of a word, etc.), spelling
  • χορός · Ancient Greek — dance ring, round dance

From choreography + -ic or choreo- + -graphic. choreography Reshaping of earlier choregraphy, a borrowing from French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek χορεία (“dance”) + -γραφίᾱ (“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 (“dance ring, round dance”) + -γραφία; compare χορογραφία), which had been used in 1710 as a translation of the same French term.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

choreographic in the wild

  • The choreographic process may employ improvisation to develop innovative movement ideas.

    Choreography

  • A choreographic sequence is a required element for figure skating in all international competitions.

    Choreographic sequence

  • Judges do not evaluate individual elements in a choreographic sequence; rather, they note that it was accomplished.

    Choreographic sequence

  • In computer science, choreographic programming is a programming paradigm for distributed systems, where programs are written as compositions of interactions among multiple concurrent participants.

    Choreographic programming

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the chorégraphie family

choreography

choreographic — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others