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Ballet vs Nonballet - What's the difference?

ballet | nonballet |

As a noun ballet

is a classical form of dance.

As an adjective nonballet is

not ballet.

ballet

English

(wikipedia ballet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A classical form of dance.
  • A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
  • The company of persons who perform this dance.
  • (music) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa-la burden or chorus, most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
  • (heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * ballet dancer * ballet flats * ballet music

    See also

    * mime * modern dance ----

    nonballet

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not ballet
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 1, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=Ballet, Hip-Hop and Latin in an Eclectic Mix of Tastes, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=I applaud the eclectic taste with which Fall for Dance placed this, the most familiar, close-to-cliché number, amid four other nonballet items on its second program