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 →

2) A dancer can also be a small figure or statue of a dancer, often made of china. tree →

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 →
• The dancers stand in 4 rows. tree →
• Each dancer needs 2 shoes. tree →
• 5 more dancers joined the group. tree →
• She wants to be a ballet dancer. tree →
• The dancers bowed at the end. tree →
• He is a good dancer. tree →
• Up in the little garret there stands, half-dressed, a little Dancer. tree →

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.
• Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the dancer dozens of tries.
• Dancing in a group first can build the confidence to dance alone, and many dancers are shy off stage.
• Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again.
• Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dancer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.