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dancer

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danc⋅er

  [dan-ser, dahn-]
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–noun
1. a person who dances.
2. a person who dances professionally, as on the stage.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME dauncer; see dance, -er 1
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Dan⋅cer

  [dan-ser, dahn-]
–noun
Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
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dance   (dāns)   
v.   danced, danc·ing, danc·es

v.   intr.

  1. To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.

    1. To leap or skip about excitedly.

    2. To appear to flash or twinkle: eyes that danced with merriment.

    3. Informal To appear to skip about; vacillate: danced around the issue.

  3. To bob up and down.

v.   tr.

  1. To engage in or perform (a dance).

  2. To cause to dance.

  3. To bring to a particular state or condition by dancing: My partner danced me to exhaustion.

n.  

  1. A series of motions and steps, usually performed to music.

  2. The art of dancing: studied dance in college.

  3. A party or gathering of people for dancing; a ball.

  4. One round or turn of dancing: May I have this dance?

  5. A musical or rhythmical piece composed or played for dancing.

  6. The act or an instance of dancing.


[Middle English dauncen, from Old French danser, perhaps of Germanic origin.]
danc'er n., danc'ing·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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