Noun: ballet
| Singular | ballet |
| Plural | ballets |
Sample Sentences
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a classically-trained ballet dancer
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Let's go to the ballet in the theatre tomorrow!
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Zara joined the ballet at the age of 14.
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9. Peter West, Ar. bears sable Ballets argent a Lyon Rampant. [1741, Richard Izacke, Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter … by Richard Izacke … Second Edition:]
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Food preparation on a potager no doubt became a kitchen ballet in which pans were constantly shifted, coals constantly replenished, and grates shaken out. [1990, Historic Preservation: Quarterly of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, volumes 42-43:]
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Henry Payton joined Alan on the sidelines during the conclusion of the oddly delicate ballet known as On-Scene Investigation. [1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:]
Nouns inflected like ballet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“group dance”) (cognate with Old French bal, whence English ball), from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”).
2. By surface analysis, ball + -et. See: French Nouns '
ballet', Italian Nouns '
balletto'.
Verbs referencing "ballet"
Irish Nouns
bailé.