dancer

¹

[dan-ser, dahn-]

noun

1. a person who dances.

2. a person who dances professionally, as on the stage.

Dancer

²

[dan-ser, dahn-]

noun

1. Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.

Other Word Forms

• nondancer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dancer¹

1250–1300; Middle English dauncer; dance, -er ¹

Example Sentences

This season happily occasioned the arrival of a new soloist, Ryan Tomash, currently on a leave of absence from the Royal Danish Ballet, where he is a principal dancer.

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Recently, one pair of cosmic dancers has turned astronomer’s heads by performing a very dangerous routine — which they’ve nicknamed the cosmic joust!

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The female professional dancers wore black dresses like the film's Wicked Witch of the West, while the men channelled their inner Prince Fiyero.

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Each dance featured a soloist in seeming personal meditation with the music, its rhythms and its spirit, and with the company’s other dancers, who appear ghostly figures in the misty distance.

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Traditional denim is typically cotton woven diagonally in a twill, which makes it rough, said Steph Giri, who costumes dancers at the University of Utah and has never put one in jeans.

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