ballet dancer
12
3.0
- noun
- /bæˈleɪ ˈdænsər/
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bailarín de ballet
- After years of hard work, she finally became a professional ballet dancer.
- recreational ballet dancer
- professional ballet dancer
- athletes and ballet dancers
From famous movie actors to to to to multiple ballet dancers to to athletes and of course journalists, humanists, scientists.
- From famous movie actors to to to to multiple ballet dancers to to athletes and of course journalists, humanists, scientists.
Examples
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Jeanette was a professional ballet dancer in the Arizona Ballet Company.
Blog text (9) -
The current research is useful for understanding the pain experience in the extensive population of recreational ballet dancers.
Academic text (2005) -
- Are you a ballet dancer?
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- I have to dance with this ballet dancer?
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How much of what you liked about me was because I was a ballet dancer?
Fiction book (2000) -
"Her hair was longer, and she was wearing it up, the way ballet dancers do.
Fiction book (1990) -
My husband hates to dance, so I would bring my son, who is a ballet dancer.
Blog text (3) -
She'd taken off her hiking boots and socks and was pointing her toes like a ballet dancer before every step.
Fiction book (1998) -
She had everything: the delicate footwork of a ballet dancer, the high-kicks of a Rockette.
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"Now the stepmother, Imogene, is a frustrated ballet dancer who keeps leaping around the house all day in her tutu.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who moves their body to music
How Experienced
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2.7
12
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person trained in ballet and who performs' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'ballet' (a type of staged dance) with 'dancer' (someone who dances). This straightforward noun + noun composition is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Ballet dancer is made of ballet, a formal graceful stage dance, and dancer, a person who dances. Imagine someone training to move lightly on their toes in special shoes, and that image explains why the phrase means 'a person trained to perform ballet'.