dancer

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a performer who dances professionally
noun a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball)

From Middle English dauncer, dawncere, dancere, equivalent to dance + -er.

Poor dancer! poor, predestined fly! — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo
He's a perfectly heavenly dancer. — Torchy and Vee, Sewell Ford
When will the dancers leave her alone? — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

professional dancer, terpsichorean

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