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# dancer

«dancer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who dances, often as a job or a hobby, such as a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (dancer, dancers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dancer is a person who dances, often as a job or a hobby, such as a ballet dancer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#m1)

2) A dancer can also be a small figure or statue of a dancer, often made of china. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: people counted, often in rows, groups or teams (rows × dancers in each); shoes and costumes per dancer; school: dance shows; everyday life and stories: ballet dancers, dancers on stage

### examples

- There are 24 dancers on the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#x1)
- The dancers stand in 4 rows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#x2)
- Each dancer needs 2 shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#x3)
- 5 more dancers joined the group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#x4)
- She wants to be a ballet dancer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#x5)
- The dancers bowed at the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#x6)
- He is a good dancer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#x7)
- Up in the little garret there stands, half-dressed, a little Dancer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/#x8)

### note

Thing counted (people). Trap: none special. One pair of shoes is 2 shoes.

### In the corpora

- [Ballet has many famous male dancers, such as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov, and it needs huge strength and athletic skill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/7/)
- [Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the dancer dozens of tries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/8/)
- [Dancing in a group first can build the confidence to dance alone, and many dancers are shy off stage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/16/)
- [Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/11/)
- [Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dancer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dancer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.