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Definition of Dancer
1. Noun. A performer who dances professionally.
Specialized synonyms: Ballet Dancer, Ballet Master, Ballet Mistress, Belly Dancer, Exotic Belly Dancer, Exotic Dancer, Chorine, Chorus Girl, Showgirl, Dance Master, Dancing-master, Hoofer, Stepper, Kachina, Nautch Girl, Tap Dancer, Tapper, Taxi Dancer
Generic synonyms: Performer, Performing Artist
Specialized synonyms: Alicia Alonso, Alonso, Astaire, Fred Astaire, Balanchine, George Balanchine, Baryshnikov, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Cunningham, Merce Cunningham, Agnes De Mille, Agnes George De Mille, De Mille, Duncan, Isadora Duncan, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Fonteyn, Graham, Martha Graham, Jamison, Judith Jamison, Karsavina, Tamara Karsavina, Eugene Curran Kelly, Gene Kelly, Kelly, Dame Alicia Markova, Lilian Alicia Marks, Markova, Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin, Leonide Fedorovitch Massine, Massine, Arthur Mitchell, Mitchell, Lola Montez, Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Montez, Nijinsky, Vaslav Nijinsky, Waslaw Nijinsky, Nureyev, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, Pavlova, Ginger Rogers, Rogers, Virginia Katherine Mcmath, Virginia Mcmath, Salome, Shawn, Ted Shawn, Moira Shearer, Shearer, Ruth Saint Denis, Ruth St. Denis, Saint Denis, St. Denis, Maria Tallchief, Tallchief, Tharp, Twyla Tharp, Antony Tudor, Tudor, Galina Sergeevna Ulanova, Galina Ulanova, Ulanova, Gaetan Vestris, Vestris
Derivative terms: Dance, Dance
2. Noun. A person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball).
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Clog Dancer, Dancing Partner, Folk Dancer, Raver, Waltzer
Derivative terms: Dance, Dance
Definition of Dancer
1. n. One who dances or who practices dancing.
Definition of Dancer
1. Noun. A person who dances, performs (a) dance(s). ¹
2. Noun. (euphemistic) A stripper. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dancer
1. one that dances [n -S] - See also: dances
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dancer
Literary usage of Dancer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of American Sculpture by Lorado Taft (1903)
"He hops in the loose-jointed way characteristic of the Indian dancer, ...
In construction and in plastic treatment of flesh the "Ghost dancer" was not ..."
2. Poems of the Dance by Edward Robert Dickson (1921)
"Witching dancer be gone! For my heart's a still shore in the hugeness of dawn,
And some answer is thrilling, is trembling for me In the errie still ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq: Interspersed with Characters and by Thomas Davies (1818)
"Mr. Barry visits London He acts at the opera house, and at Mr. Foote's theatre,
with Mrs dancer....His and Mrs. dancer's engagement at Drury-lane. ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"No, says Monsieur Blasis, the principal dancer at the King's Theatre, and composer
of ballets. ' This is downright heresy—a renunciation of the allegiance ..."
5. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Weary Round — Shouts of Encouragement — Wail of the Squaws — An Exhausted
dancer — Dragged from the Fatal Arena — The Victim — Death of the dancer — The ..."
6. The Antique Greek Dance, After Sculptured and Painted Figures by Maurice Emmanuel (1916)
"dancer IN DRAPERY, about to fling her mantle, Museum of Athens, ... dancer flinging
her veil, Compte rendu de la Commission imperiale archeol- ..."
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