CHOREOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does choreography mean? 

• CHOREOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun CHOREOGRAPHY has 3 senses:

1. a show involving artistic dancing

2. the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes

3. a notation used by choreographers

  Familiarity information: CHOREOGRAPHY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOREOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A show involving artistic dancing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

choreography; stage dancing

Hypernyms ("choreography" is a kind of...):

dance; dancing; saltation; terpsichore (taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music)

show (a social event involving a public performance or entertainment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "choreography"):

ballet; concert dance (a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers)

modern dance (a style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet; movements are expressive of feelings)

apache dance (a violent fast dance in French vaudeville (an apache is a member of the French underworld))

belly dance; belly dancing; danse du ventre (a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen)

bolero (a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets)

cakewalk (a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake)

cancan (a high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line)

nude dancing (erotic dancing with little or no clothing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("choreography" is a kind of...):

dance (an artistic form of nonverbal communication)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A notation used by choreographers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("choreography" is a kind of...):

notation; notational system (a technical system of symbols used to represent special things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "choreography"):

Labanotation (a system of notation for dance movements that uses symbols to represent points on a dancer's body and the direction of the dancer's movement and the tempo and the dynamics)

 Context examples 

In this new study, the team describe their discovery of two proteins—ClqL4 and Stabilin-2—that regulate this singular choreography.

(Researchers Discovered Proteins Essential to Development of Skeletal Muscle, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In this perpetual choreography, Naiad swirls around the ice giant every seven hours, while Thalassa, on the outside track, takes seven and a half hours.

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

If you are working on a highly artistic assignment, such as one involving music, choreography, painting, theatrical set design, a film or TV show, costume or fashion design, window display, package design, or another artistic expression, you will be at your best, not only due to Mars’ position but also thanks to Neptune’s turn direct.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)