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ballerina

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˌbæləɹˈiːnə//

A ballet dancer (unisex term) A female ballet dancer.

noun

  1. 1

    A ballet dancer (unisex term) A female ballet dancer.

  2. 2

    A ballet dancer (unisex term) A male ballet dancer; Synonym of ballerino.

  3. 3

    A ballet flat shoe.

  4. 4

    Variant of prima ballerinaA ballet dancer (unisex term) A female ballet dancer. Ellipsis of prima ballerina (“the star female ballet performer in the company”).

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ballerina.

Forms

plural
ballerinas, ballerine
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).