ballerina
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əˈri noun
1.
a principal female dancer in a ballet company. Compare prima ballerina.
2.
any female ballet dancer.
3.
a woman's very low-heeled or heelless shoe or slipper, made to resemble a ballet slipper.
Compare ballet slipper.
Origin:
1785–95; < Italian, feminine of ballerino professional dancer, probably equivalent to baller(ia) dance (ball(are) to dance (< Late Latin; see ball2) + -eria < Old French; see -ery) + -ino -ine1
1785–95; < Italian, feminine of ballerino professional dancer, probably equivalent to baller(ia) dance (ball(are) to dance (< Late Latin; see ball2) + -eria < Old French; see -ery) + -ino -ine1
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| —n | |
| 1. | a female ballet dancer |
| 2. | (US) the principal female dancer of a ballet company |
| [C18: from Italian, feminine of ballerino dancing master, from ballare to dance, from Late Latin ballāre: see | |
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Word Origin & History
ballerina
1792, from It., lit. "dancing girl," fem. of ballerino "dancer," from ballo "a dance" (see ball (2)). The It. plural form ballerine formerly sometimes was used in Eng.
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The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Example sentences
When you open the box the music plays and the ballerina starts to dance.
Be the belle of the ball with evening slippers or ballerina flats.
However, the delayed diagnosis denied me a full recovery and cost me a career as a ballerina.
Imagine an ad that shows a toy ballerina standing alone and twirling.
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