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prima ballerina

 
Dictionary: pri·ma ballerina   (prē'mə) pronunciation
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n.
The leading woman dancer in a ballet company.

[Italian : prima, feminine of primo, first + ballerina, ballerina.]


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prima ballerina (It., first dancer). In classical ballet, the female dancer who occupies the top position among dancers in a company. There is only one higher title, that of prima ballerina assoluta, which is very rarely given. The Royal Ballet bestowed this latter title on Margot Fonteyn in 1979, when she was 60.

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The leading ballerina in a dance company.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a leading female ballet dancer

 
 

 

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Dictionary of Dance. The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. Copyright © 2000, 2004 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.  Read more
Fine Arts Dictionary. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.  Read more
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