choragus
Americannoun
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(in ancient Greece)
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the leader of a dramatic chorus.
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a person who undertook the expense of providing for such a chorus.
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any conductor of an entertainment or festival.
noun
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the leader of a chorus
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a sponsor of a chorus
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a conductor of a festival
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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
Vocabulary lists containing choragus
Example Sentences
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At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next he may be slanging to beat Broadway.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
When it had attained its highest pitch, at a sign from the choragus it ceased—ceased with such suddenness as to impart an impression that was positively uneasy.
From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
Occasionally a copper fell to them, in return for which the choragus exclaimed 'Gord bless yer!'
From Thyrza by Gissing, George
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 Stewart, Aubrey
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