ballet-dancer
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "There Degas was, and behind him, in there, was his studio; and behind him, there in his old age, was his life-work; and with unaging eyes he was, I felt sure, taking notes of the “values” and what not of the populous scene down below, regretting perhaps (for he had never cast his net wide) the absence of any ballet-dancers, or jockeys, or laundry-girls, or women sponging themselves in hip-baths; but deeply, but passionately observing."
- "Swans glide, fox-cubs gambol, eagles soar; time-lapsed trees burst into leaf, slowed-down hares leap and twist like furry ballet-dancers."
- "Nina Ananiashvili (1963- ): Alluring grace, enticing mystique, personal magic, instinctive expressiveness and the technical wizardry to draw the public with her into unvoiceable passions and dreams - these qualities separate the handful of true ballerinas from the legions of mere female ballet-dancers."