BALLET DANCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ballet dancer mean? 

• BALLET DANCER (noun)
  The noun BALLET DANCER has 1 sense:

1. a trained dancer who is a member of a ballet company

  Familiarity information: BALLET DANCER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALLET DANCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A trained dancer who is a member of a ballet company

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ballet dancer" is a kind of...):

dancer; professional dancer; terpsichorean (a performer who dances professionally)

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

ballerina; danseuse (a female ballet dancer)

danseur; danseur noble (a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina)

Instance hyponyms:

Andre Eglevsky; Eglevsky (United States ballet dancer (born in Russia) (1917-1977))

Holonyms ("ballet dancer" is a member of...):

ballet company (a company that produces ballets)

 Context examples 

Like cosmic ballet dancers, the stars of the Pleiades cluster are spinning.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)