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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dancer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ballet dancer
exotic dancer
go-go dancer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ People said black dancers don't have the right body, the right feet.
▪ She understood, however, that Alvin was committed to providing work for black dancers.
▪ In the total absence of black dancers, Covent Garden lags behind other ballet companies in the West.
▪ A small group of black dancers picketed the theater for two days, carrying placards and occasionally shouting slogans.
▪ They are living evidence of the past lack of opportunity for black classical dancers in this country.
▪ But for black dancers and choreographers, this was a time to push ahead.
▪ He found it hard at first to believe that black dancers were as welcome as they seemed.
▪ It was an extraordinary time for a young person like Alvin, black and a dancer, to arrive in New York.
good
▪ They were both good dancers and gradually the other couples drifted off the floor and stood in a circle watching them.
▪ She was not a good dancer, just a dancer, just a chorus girl.
▪ She was a pretty girl with fair curly hair and brown eyes, very self-possessed and a good dancer.
▪ Not only did Alvin know nothing about choreography, Shawn wrote, but he was not even a good dancer.
▪ A good rider, like a good ballet dancer, needs to be the right shape.
▪ Horton told him that he had a chance of becoming a good dancer.
▪ Naturally, it was mainly the best dancers who went abroad to work.
▪ Q.. Do you think you are better singers or dancers?
male
▪ He became like a male ballet dancer - a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes.
▪ She was a good ham, bumping her hips up against the male dancers and rolling her eyes.
▪ I lift her soft and easy as a male ballet dancer would lift Giselle.
▪ The men were big and virile and unlike any other male dancers he had ever seen.
▪ A male dancer crosses the stage, and Chaland follows him out of the auditorium.
▪ Can you name any other dance organization in which a male dancer substitutes for a female without raising a ruffle?
▪ He got into the company because one of its few experienced male dancers, George Gerhardt, was leaving.
▪ He is more spectacular in sheer technique than any other male dancer.
modern
▪ Although some modern dancers do without music in the accepted sense of that term, they rarely do without rhythmic phrasing.
▪ Now there was an Ailey company for modern dancers.
▪ Later a noted modern dancer, actress and teacher, de Lavallade began early on to attract attention.
▪ Pure-minded modern dancer that he was, Alvin politely declined.
professional
▪ I was determined to be a professional dancer.
▪ Most knew each other as part of the small but growing group of black professional dancers in New York.
▪ He also described the four types of professional dancer whom he used in his ballets.
▪ Alvin found himself drawn back to Melrose Avenue, although he was still undecided about becoming a professional dancer.
▪ Their choice of collaborators has ranged from the Wirral Youth Theatre to local professional dancers.
▪ June's husband Ralph is an air-filtration engineer and her daughter Jill is a professional dancer and secretary.
topless
▪ No topless dancers, no hard drugs, no trial.
▪ Nikita and the other topless dancers in town are worried.
▪ Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin gets caught in a hotel room with two topless dancers and a mobile pharmacy.
▪ One succeeded, so that the drinkers of Corona can see topless dancers touch themselves.
young
▪ In her place was her understudy, Miss Lisa Fennell, a young dancer usually seen in the chorus.
▪ He became friendly with a young singer and dancer named Marguerite Angelos, later known as the writer Maya Angelou.
▪ While auditioning for the show, Lloyd Webber met a young dancer from the chorus line, Sarah Brightman.
▪ The young dancer put a stop to our writing, as I had expected.
▪ The harlequin is enamoured of a young dancer who has been forced to marry the proprietor of the troupe.
■ NOUN
ballet
▪ I felt weightless, light as a ballet dancer.
▪ He is a sensational, irresistible presence who has the composure and concentration of a ballet dancer.
▪ He became like a male ballet dancer - a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes.
▪ I lift her soft and easy as a male ballet dancer would lift Giselle.
▪ Poor Brady, a ballet dancer in a bearpit.
▪ Look at her, May jeered, nodding over the road, thinks she's a ballet dancer.
▪ A ballet dancer who does not practise every day loses a lot of skill, as does a musician.
▪ I get as big a kick out of watching Seb on the top curve as I do watching a ballet dancer.
ballroom
▪ A bright yellow strip of tape separated the country-western ballroom dancers from the line dance crowd.
▪ Longbine said line dancers have concluded that repeated dance floor collisions were acts of aggression by the ballroom dancers.
belly
▪ Tables of the Merciful are also set up across the country by the armed forces, businesses and belly dancers.
▪ Why, a room full of belly dancers, of course.
▪ The festivities last week started with Christmas music and ended, much later, with belly dancers and congratulations all around.
line
▪ Dancers say tension between ballroom and line dancers who compete for dance floor space has existed for years.
▪ Longbine said line dancers have concluded that repeated dance floor collisions were acts of aggression by the ballroom dancers.
■ VERB
become
▪ The schoolgirl had planned to become a dancer.
▪ Alvin found himself drawn back to Melrose Avenue, although he was still undecided about becoming a professional dancer.
▪ Horton told him that he had a chance of becoming a good dancer.
dance
▪ The dancers would dance, the mannequin would shiver and give birth to the green girl.
▪ He keeps wandering into minor subplots, about a flamenco dancer and a dancing doctors demonstration.
feature
▪ But the songs featuring the dancers provided the spectacle.
▪ The 8-minute work will feature about 16 dancers.
▪ Herbert Ross, who had replaced him, wanted Alvin and de Lavallade to join the show as featured dancers.
move
▪ As they passed through the dancers, Connon noticed-Pascoe moving slowly around with an attractive young girl.
▪ The dancers move very little in what follows, and when they separate as a group they return and pull together.
▪ It also led to closer contacts between the dancers as they moved from picture to picture within the design.
▪ The ideal of aesthetic athleticism, as embodied in her dancers, is the moving force that steers her work.
perform
▪ These are seen to belong to one particular country and are at their best when performed by dancers from that country.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a world famous dancer
▪ Her childhood dream was to be a ballet dancer.
▪ I'm not a very good dancer.
▪ The ballet dancer, Rudolph Nureyev, died at the age of fifty four.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Blues Suite has changed over the years in structure, content and the ways succeeding generations of dancers perform it.
▪ Each village has dancers and musicians to enact musical dramas which have been passed down through the generations.
▪ I was determined to be a professional dancer.
▪ Narrative dance applies to those phrases of conversation between individuals or between dancers and public, where the dancer uses explicit gestures.
▪ Suddenly it stops and, it seems within seconds, drummers, dancers and audience disperse.
▪ The desk lamp with an emerald-green shade and small prints of Degas' dancers were the only distinctive features of the room.
▪ The tension got to the dancers, too, and many expected the ballet to be a fiasco.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dancer

Dancer \Dan"cer\, n. One who dances or who practices dancing.

The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dancer

mid-15c., agent noun from dance. (Dancere as a surname is attested from early 12c.). Related: Danseuse "female dancer," from French fem. of danseur.

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Wiktionary
dancer

n. 1 A person who dances or performs (a) dance(s), usually as a job or profession. 2 (context euphemistic English) A stripper.

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WordNet
dancer

  1. n. a performer who dances [syn: professional dancer]

  2. a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball) [syn: social dancer]

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Wikipedia
Dancer (2005 film)

Dancer is a 2005 Tamil drama film written and directed by Keyaar. The film was produced by Yogesh KR under KR Infotech. The film which revolves around a handicapped dancer with one leg was released on 12 January 2005.

Dancer (1991 film)

Dancer is an Indian Bollywood film released in 1991, starring Akshay Kumar, Mohini, Kirti Singh, Mohnish Bahl and Dalip Tahil.

Dancer (Gino Soccio song)

Dancer is a 1979 crossover disco single, by Canadian born producer, Gino Soccio, from the LP entitled, "Outline". Along with the track, "Dance to Dance", "Dancer" hit number one on the disco chart for six weeks and was the first of two times Soccio would reach the top spot."Dancer" also crossed over to the soul singles chart where it peaked at number sixty and to the pop singles chart where it made it to number forty-eight.

Dancer (disambiguation)

A dancer is one who performs dance.

Dancer or dancers may also refer to:

  • Dancer (surname)
  • Dancer, one of Santa Claus's reindeer
  • Dancer baronets, an Irish title
  • Dancer, a damselfly of genus Argia
  • DAnCER (database), a biological database
  • Dancers (film), starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Julie Kent
  • Dancer (1991 film), a Bollywood film
  • Dancer (2005 film), a Tamil film
  • The Dancer (2016 film), a French film
  • Dancer (software), a web application framework
  • "Dancer" (Gino Soccio song)
  • "Dancer" (Michael Schenker Group song)
  • "Dancer", a song by Queen from Hot Space
  • Dancer (novel), a novel based on the life of Rudolf Nureyev, written by Colum McCann
Dancer (software)

Dancer is an open source lightweight web application framework written in Perl and inspired by Ruby's Sinatra.

In April 2011, Dancer was rewritten from scratch and released as Dancer2. The reason for the rewrite was to fix architectural issues and eliminate the use of singletons. Development of Dancer1 was at first frozen, but was later continued to maintain backward compatibility for existing apps.

Dancer is developed through GitHub, with stable releases available via CPAN. Dancer2 is released as a separate module.

DAnCER (database)

DAnCER (disease-annotated chromatin epigenetics resource) is a database for chromatin modifications and their relation to human disease.

It was developed by the Wodak Lab at the Hospital for Sick Children.

It has been developed to serve as the core bioinformatics resource for seven experimental and bioinformatics laboratories working together to unravel the mechanisms of chromatin modifications and their relation to human disease. Since molecular networks are essential to the understanding of biological processes, this research effort strives to explore CM-related genes in the full context of protein complexes, gene-expression regulation and pathways. To gain additional insights into the CM process in human cells, it also explores patterns of evolutionary conservation across model organisms - from sequence, domain composition and 3D structure, to interaction patterns and regulatory mechanisms.

Dancer (surname)

Dancer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Barry Dancer (born 1952), Australian former field hockey player
  • Faye Dancer (1925–2002), player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  • John Benjamin Dancer (1812–1887), scientific instrument maker and inventor of microphotography
  • Ronald S. Dancer (born 1949), American politician
  • Stanley Dancer (1927–2005), American harness racing driver and trainer
Dancer (novel)

Dancer is a novel based on the life of Rudolf Nureyev, written by Colum McCann and published in 2003.

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Usage examples of "dancer".

Was he man or devil, Abie asked herself as she watched the dancer take command of the stage.

A flush of heat engulfed Abie as she watched the slow, seductive movements of the dancers on the stage.

He was sitting in a music hall one evening, sipping his absinth and admiring the art of a certain famous Russian dancer, when he caught a passing glimpse of a pair of evil black eyes upon him.

As the closing bars of the elegant waltz filled the ballroom, Acer shoved his way drunkenly through the dancers, marching toward Rackford and Daphne.

As I was obliged to keep my room, I let my friends know of my confinement, and I received visits from dancers and ballet-girls, who were the only decent people I was acquainted with in that wretched Stuttgart, where I had better never have set foot.

The dancers in the afterglow do not break rhythm, but do introduce a kind of bow into their prancing.

He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.

With a cute guy I picked up at Amour Magique, a good -- no, great -- dancer.

A small antechamber to the world-cavern, a recent budding Dancer had never before entered.

Jacky has reservations at the Auberge to see Zizi Mustafa, the most famous dancer of them all, and Muldoon has news of a hot archeological find in Ethiopia.

I have spoken of Esmer, who professes to be the son of Cail and the Dancers of the Sea, and whose dark puissance concerns and dismays even the ur-viles, despite their ancient loathing for the Land.

She came almost immediately, holding by the hand a little boy of eight years--a lovely child--and the only one she had given to her husband, who was a dancer in Bayreuth.

A dancer of my acquaintance, whom curiosity had brought there with the rest, came up to me, complimented me upon my fortunate escape, and told me everybody was talking about it.

Four or five days after the ball night, Agatha came to tell me that the manager of the Alexandria Theatre had asked her if she would take the part of second dancer throughout the carnival time.

Madame Soavi, a Bolognese dancer whom I had known at Parma and Paris, came to Bologna with her daughter by M.