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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dancer \Dan"cer\, noun One who dances or who practices dancing.
{The merry dancers}, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See {Aurora borealis}, under {Aurora}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dancer
noun
1: a performer who dances [syn: {professional dancer}]
2: a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball) [syn: {social dancer}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "dancer": artist, artiste, ballerina, ballet dancer, ballet girl, ballroom dancer, belly dancer, burlesque queen, choral dancer, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, clog dancer, conjurer, coryphee, dancing girl, danseur, danseur noble, danseuse, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, figurant, figurante, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, heel-and-toe dancer, hoofer, hula girl, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, prima ballerina, public entertainer, show girl, singer, square-dancer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, terpsichorean, vaudevillian, vaudevillist
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