choragus

American  

[kuh-ray-guhs, koh-, kaw-] / kəˈreɪ gəs, koʊ-, kɔ- /

noun

• choragi,
  plural
• choraguses
  plural

1. (in ancient Greece)

   1. the leader of a dramatic chorus.

   2. a person who undertook the expense of providing for such a chorus.

2. any conductor of an entertainment or festival.

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choragus British  

/ kɔːˈreɪɡəs, -ˈreɪ- /

noun

1. 1. the leader of a chorus

   2. a sponsor of a chorus

2. a conductor of a festival

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• choragic
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• choragi
  plural
• choraguses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of choragus

1620–30; < Latin < Greek chorāgós, dialectal variant of chorēgós, equivalent to chor ( ós ) chorus + -ēgos, combining form of ágein to lead

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

choragus choragi

At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next he may be slanging to beat Broadway.

From Time Magazine Archive

He put up a tablet in memory of his success bearing the words: Themistokles of Phrearri was choragus, Phrynichus wrote the play, Adeimantus was archon.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart

Occasionally a copper fell to them, in return for which the choragus exclaimed 'Gord bless yer!'

From Thyrza by George Gissing

The chorus came forward, all the singers clad in the Greek costume, at their head as choragus Johannes Diemer, arrayed in diadem and toga.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

For I should be appointed as choragus for tragedies and should call on him to exchange with me, he would prefer to be choragus ten times rather than exchange once with me.

From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias

Or, to take another class of cases: adjudication has to be made between the choragi for the Dionysia, the Thargelia, the Panathenaea, year after year.

From Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Henry Graham Dakyns

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