Dictionary

choreographer en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English choreograph Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English choreographer From choreograph + -er.

Meanings

1. One who choreographs.
   • Chandralekha, a choreographer from Madras, India, has been described as a counterculturalist who draws on elements of classical Indian dance like Bharata Natyam and on Western modern dance. 1994 September 12, Jennifer Dunning, “DANCE REVIEW; Merging Body and Spirit To Produce a Single Essence”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2024:
   • "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse." 1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2024:

Forms

Synonyms

choreographist

Translations (31)

id koreograf (person who choreographs) · it coreografo (person who choreographs) · ar مُصَمِّمُ رَقْصٍ (person who choreographs) · de Ballettmeister (person who choreographs) · ro coregrafă (person who choreographs) · de Choreographin (person who choreographs) · de Choreograf (person who choreographs) · cmn 編導 /编导 (person who choreographs) · ar مُصَمِّمَةُ رَقْصٍ (person who choreographs) · de Choreograph (person who choreographs) · ru балетме́йстер (person who choreographs) · el χορογράφος (person who choreographs) · cs choreograf (person who choreographs) · tr koreograf (person who choreographs) · pl choreografka (person who choreographs) · pl choreograf (person who choreographs) · es coreógrafo (person who choreographs) · it coreografa (person who choreographs) · sv koreograf (person who choreographs) · fr chorégraphe (person who choreographs) · id koreografer (person who choreographs) · ru хорео́граф (person who choreographs) · de Choreografin (person who choreographs) · gl coreógrafo (person who choreographs) · ms koreografer (person who choreographs) · fi koreografi (person who choreographs) · pt coreógrafo (person who choreographs) · ja 振付師 (person who choreographs) · ro coregraf (person who choreographs) · ca coreògraf (person who choreographs) · cmn 編舞 /编舞 (person who choreographs)