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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The art of creating and arranging dances or ballets.
  • noun A work created by this art.
  • noun Something, such as a series of planned situations, likened to dance arrangements.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art of designing and arranging dances, especially ballet-dances.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choregraphy.
  • noun the art of composing dances for individuals or groups, including the planning of the movements and steps; also, the planning of movements and steps for figure skaters, performed on ice.
  • noun informal the planning and coordination of activities for an event, especially one to be held in public.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a ballet etc.
  • noun The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
  • noun The notation used to construct this record.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a notation used by choreographers
  • noun a show involving artistic dancing
  • noun the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French chorégraphie : Greek khoreia, choral dance; see chorea + -graphie, writing (from Latin -graphia, -graphy).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreia, "dance") + -graphy.

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