Astaire

American  

[uh-stair] / əˈstɛər /

noun

1. Fred, 1899–1987, U.S. dancer and actor.

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Astaire British  

/ əˈstɛə /

noun

1. Fred, real name Frederick Austerlitz . 1899–1987, US dancer, singer, and actor, whose films include Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936), and The Band Wagon (1953)

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Example Sentences

Josie said she had always dreamed of dancing like Fred Astaire, and decided to take up tap and ballet at a dance school in York when she turned 60.

From BBC

Because if you look back at old movies with Fred Astaire or with Gene Kelly, specifically Fred Astaire, they would zoom out just to show you from head to toe, we are dancing.

From Los Angeles Times

Fred Astaire he was not, and when he realized that I didn’t fall for his charm, he began to cry.

From Los Angeles Times

Military comedies have a long and relatively peaceable history on screens small and large — Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis and Bill Murray all made them.

From Los Angeles Times

Esquire magazine, in 1960, listed him as one of the best-dressed men in America, along with Clark Gable, Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.

From Los Angeles Times