Definitions for ballerina

ballerina bal·le·ri·na

Spelling: [bal-uh-ree-nuh]
IPA: /ˌbæl əˈri nə/

Ballerina is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 367 anagrams from letters in ballerina (aabeillnr).

Definitions for ballerina

noun

  1. a principal female dancer in a ballet company. Compare prima ballerina.
  2. any female ballet dancer.
  3. a woman's very low-heeled or heelless shoe or slipper, made to resemble a ballet slipper.

Origin of ballerina

1785-95; Italian, feminine of ballerino professional dancer, probably equivalent to baller(ia) dance (ball(are) to dance (Late Latin; see ball2) + -eria Ol

Examples for ballerina

"She looks half like a Madonna and half like a ballerina," she said.

Vin Baker Baker was one of those big men who moved like a ballerina.

There was something of the ballerina in her temperament, also, which she never entirely outgrew.

He was bisexual and a ballerina, and this was while I was at the Atlantic Theater Company in Vermont.

A duke sent me an invitation to take supper with him, as if I were a ballerina!

Not necessarily having a big fat ass, because ballerina bodies are in.

Like the gymnast and the ballerina, the distance runner is often defined by drive and compulsion.

It might have been the cell where years ago a ballerina was immured for a wrong step.

Yes; that is her stepmother—the stepmother of the ballerina.

After seeing Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova perform in Cairo, Iolas knew he wanted to be an artiste.

Word Value for ballerina
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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