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Dancer vs Coryphee - What's the difference?

dancer | coryphee |

As nouns the difference between dancer and coryphee

is that dancer is a person who dances or performs (a) dance(s), usually as a job or profession while coryphée is a ballet dancer ranking above a member of the corps de ballet and below a soloist.

dancer

English

Alternative forms

* dauncer (obsolete) * dawncer (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who dances or performs (a) dance(s), usually as a job or profession.
  • (euphemistic) A stripper.

    • Derived terms

    * ballet dancer * gogo-dancer * pole-dancer

    Synonyms

    * (euphemism for stripper) exotic dancer

    Related terms

    * dancing

    Anagrams

    * * * English agent nouns ----

    coryphee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ballet dancer ranking above a member of the corps de ballet and below a soloist.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 305:
  • *:The sick throw away their crutches and dance like coryphées , the enfeebled strain to lift logs and boulders […].