Synonyms for ballerina

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bal-uh-ree-nuh

Phonetic Transcription : ˌbæl əˈri nə

Définition of ballerina

Origin : 1792, from Italian ballerina, literally "dancing girl," fem. of ballerino "dancer," from ballo "a dance" (see ball (n.2)). The Italian plural form ballerine formerly sometimes was used in English.

As in prima ballerina : noun lead woman ballet dancer

Example sentences :

A duke sent me an invitation to take supper with him, as if I were a ballerina!
Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath

Yes; that is her stepmother—the stepmother of the ballerina.
Extract from : « Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

It might have been the cell where years ago a Ballerina was immured for a wrong step.
Extract from : « Carnival » by Compton Mackenzie

"She looks half like a Madonna and half like a ballerina," she said.
Extract from : « Roderick Hudson » by Henry James

There was something of the ballerina in her temperament, also, which she never entirely outgrew.
Extract from : « Memoirs of an American Prima Donna » by Clara Louise Kellogg

We had the delectable vision of the Russian ballerina dancing with arms entwined about several maids of Japan.
Extract from : « New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 » by Various

My disappointment with the ballerina was as nothing, however, to my disappointment with the woman.
Extract from : « An Englishman in Paris » by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

At first, the ballerina refused, on the score of her age and the decline of her physical powers.
Extract from : « Later Queens of the French Stage » by H. Noel Williams

It was in France, however, that the ballerina secured her greatest triumph, and the ballet d'action attained its fullest vitality.
Extract from : « A Book of the Play » by Dutton Cook

She could dance like a ballerina by herself, but she could not count "one-two-three-four" twice in succession.
Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes

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