dancer

See also: Dancer

English

Alternative forms

• dauncer, dawncer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dauncer, dawncere, dancere, equivalent to dance +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːns.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈdæns.ə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdæns.ɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnsə(ɹ), -ænsə(ɹ)

Noun

dancer (plural dancers)

1. A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.

   Synonym: stepper

   I'm a terrible dancer.

2. (euphemistic) A stripper.

   Synonym: exotic dancer

3. (obsolete, slang) Synonym of garreter (“a thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows”)
   • 1889, Charles Tempest Clarkson, J. Hall Richardson, Police!, page 260:

     [A]bout 40 were burglars, "dancers," "garreters," and other adepts with the skeleton keys.

Hyponyms

• ballerina
• ballerino
• Billy Elliot
• breakdancer
• chorus girl
• co-dancer
• Fred Astaire
• jiver
• John Travolta
• krumper
• majorette
• moonwalker
• twerker
• twinkle toes
• waltzer

 

Derived terms

• ballet dancer
• belly dancer
• break-dancer
• break dancer
• cage dancer
• dad dancer
• devil dancer
• exotic dancer
• fan dancer
• fire dancer
• folk dancer
• gandy dancer
• gandy-dancer
• go-go dancer
• grave dancer
• lap dancer
• lap-dancer
• macho dancer
• morris-dancer
• morris dancer
• pole dancer
• rope dancer
• ropedancer
• saffron shadow dancer
• slamdancer
• square dancer
• stepdancer
• street dancer
• table dancer
• tap-dancer
• tap dancer
• taxi dancer
• taxi-dancer
• wire-dancer

 

Related terms

• dancing

Descendants

• → Japanese: ダンサー (dansā)

Translations

person who dances

• Afrikaans: danser
• Albanian: valltar (sq) m, kërcimtar (sq) m
• Amharic: ዳንኪረኛ (dankiräña)
• Arabic: رَاقِص m (rāqiṣ), رَاقِصَة f (rāqiṣa)

  Egyptian Arabic: رقاص m (raʔāṣ)

• Armenian: պարող (hy) (paroġ)
• Assamese: নর্তকী
• Asturian: baillador m, baillarín m
• Azerbaijani: rəqqas
• Bashkir: бейеүсе (beyewse)
• Basque: dantzari
• Belarusian: танцо́р m (tancór)
• Bengali: নর্তক (bn) (nortok)
• Bulgarian: танцьо́р m (tancjór), балети́ст (bg) m (baletíst)
• Burmese: ကချေသည် (my) (ka.hkyesany)
• Catalan: ballador m, ballarí m (professional), dansador m, dansaire m or f
• Chechen: хелхархо (xelxarxo)
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chickasaw: hilha'
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 舞蹈家 (bú-tō-ka)

  Mandarin: 舞蹈家 (zh) (wǔdǎojiā), 舞蹈演員／舞蹈演员 (wǔdǎo yǎnyuán), 跳舞者 (tiàowǔzhě)

• Czech: tanečník (cs) m, tanečnice (cs) f
• Danish: danser (da) c
• Dutch: danser (nl) m
• Esperanto: dancisto, virdancisto
• Estonian: tantsija
• Faroese: dansari m
• Finnish: tanssija (fi)
• French: danseur (fr) m
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: bailador m, bailarín (gl) m, danzarín m
• Georgian: მოცეკვავე (moceḳvave)
• German: Tänzer (de) m
• Greek: χορευτής (el) m (choreftís)

  Ancient: ὀρχηστής m (orkhēstḗs), ὀρχηστρίς f (orkhēstrís)

• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: רקדן \ רַקְדָן (he) m (rakdán)
• Hindi: नर्तक (hi) m (nartak), नचनिया m (nacniyā), नाचनेवाला m (nācnevālā)
• Hungarian: táncos (hu) m
• Icelandic: dansari (is) m
• Ido: dansanto (io), dansantulo, dansero (io), danserulo (io), dansisto (io), dansistulo
• Indonesian: penari (id)
• Irish: rinceoir m, damhsóir m
• Italian: ballerino (it) m, danzatore (it) m
• Japanese: ダンサー (ja) (dansā), 舞踊家 (ぶようか, buyōka)
• Kalmyk: биич (biiç)
• Kannada: ಪಾಣ (kn) (pāṇa)
• Kapampangan: talaterak
• Kazakh: биші (bişı), билеуші (kk) (bileuşı)
• Khmer: អ្នករាំ (nĕək rŏəm)
• Korean: 춤꾼 (ko) (chumkkun)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: reqsker (ku), dansker (ku)

• Kyrgyz: бийчи киши (biyci kişi) (male), бийчи (ky) (biyci)
• Lao: ນັກເຕັ້ນລຳ (nak ten lam)
• Latin: saltātor m, saltātrīx f, histriō m, lūdius m, lūdia f
• Latvian: dejotājs m
• Lithuanian: šokėjas m
• Luganda: omuzinyi m
• Luxembourgish: Dänzer m
• Macedonian: танчер m (tančer)
• Malay: penari
• Malayalam: തുളളിച്ചാടുന്നവൻ (tuḷaḷiccāṭunnavaṉ)
• Maori: kaikanikani
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бүжигчин (mn) (büžigčin)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠵᠢᠭᠴᠢᠨ (büǰiɣčin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: danser (no) m

  Nynorsk: dansar m

• Occitan: dançaire (oc) m
• Odia: ନର୍ତ୍ତକ (or) (nôrttôkô)
• Old English: hlēapere m, hoppere m, tumbere m
• Pashto: رقاص (ps) m (raqās), نڅاګر m (nacāgar)
• Persian: رَقّاص (fa) (raqqâs)
• Polish: tancerz (pl) m, tancerka (pl) f
• Portuguese: bailarino (pt) m, dançarino (pt) m
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Quechua: tusuq
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: dansator (ro) m
• Russian: танцо́р (ru) m (tancór), танцо́вщик (ru) m (tancóvščik), балеру́н (ru) m (balerún), (ballet dancer); плясу́н (ru) m (pljasún)
• Saanich: SJELW̱EṈ
• Scottish Gaelic: dannsair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плѐса̄ч m

  Roman: plèsāč (sh) m

• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: tanečník (sk) m, tanečnica f
• Slovene: plesalec (sl) m
• Spanish: bailarín (es) m, bailador (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: dansiman
• Swedish: dansare (sv) c
• Tagalog: mananayaw
• Tajik: раққос (raqqos)
• Tamil: நடனக்காரர் (naṭaṉakkārar)
• Taos: tòʼóna
• Tatar: биюче (tt) (biyuçe)
• Telugu: నర్తకి (te) (nartaki)
• Thai: นักเต้น (nák-dtên), หางเครื่อง (hǎang-krʉ̂ʉang)
• Tigrinya: ሳዕሰዓይ (saʿsäʿay)
• Turkish: dansçı (tr)
• Turkmen: tansçy
• Ukrainian: танцюри́ст m (tancjurýst)
• Urdu: رَقّاص m (raqqās)
• Uyghur: ئۇسسۇلچى (ussulchi), تانسىچى (tansichi)
• Uzbek: tansachi (uz), raqqos (uz)
• Vietnamese: người nhảy, người múa, người khiêu vũ, vũ công
• Volapük: danüdan (vo), hidanüdan
• Welsh: dawnsiwr m or f, dawnswr m or f
• Yiddish: טענצער m (tentser)

a female person who dances

• Albanian: valltare (sq) f, kërcimtare (sq) f
• Arabic: رَاقِصَة f (rāqiṣa)

  Egyptian Arabic: رقاصة f (raʔaaṣa)

• Armenian: պարուհի (hy) (paruhi)
• Belarusian: танцо́рка f (tancórka)
• Bengali: নর্তকী (nortoki)
• Bulgarian: танцьо́рка f (tancjórka)
• Chickasaw: hilha'
• Czech: tanečnice (cs) f
• Danish: danserinde c, danserske c
• Dutch: danseres (nl) f
• Esperanto: dancistino
• Finnish: tanssijatar (fi)
• French: danseuse (fr) f
• German: Tänzerin (de) f
• Greek: χορεύτρια (el) f (choréftria)

  Ancient: ὀρχηστρίς f (orkhēstrís)

• Hebrew: רקדנית \ רַקְדָנִית f (rakdanít)
• Hindi: नर्तकी (hi) f (nartakī)
• Hungarian: táncosnő (hu) f
• Ido: dansantino, danserino (io), dansistino (io)
• Italian: ballerina (it) f, danzatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 踊り子 (ja) (おどりこ, odoriko)
• Lao: ນັກຟ້ອນ (nak fǭn)
• Latin: saltatrix f, ludia f
• Latvian: dejotāja f
• Lithuanian: šokėja f
• Luxembourgish: Dänzerin f
• Macedonian: танчерка f (tančerka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: danserinne m or f

  Nynorsk: dansarinne f

• Old English: hlēapestre f
• Pashto: رقاصه (ps) f (raqāsa), نڅاګره f (nacāgǝra)
• Persian: رَقّاصِه (fa) (raqqâse)
• Polish: tancerka (pl) f
• Portuguese: bailarina (pt) f, dançarina (pt) f
• Romanian: dansatoare (ro) f
• Russian: танцо́вщица (ru) f (tancóvščica), танцо́рка (ru) f (tancórka) (colloquial); балери́на (ru) f (balerína) (ballet dancer); плясу́нья (ru) f (pljasúnʹja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плеса̀чица f

  Roman: plesàčica (sh) f

• Slovak: tanečnica f
• Slovene: plesalka f
• Spanish: bailarina f, bailadora (es) f
• Swedish: danserska (sv) c dansös (sv) c
• Turkish: dansçı (tr), dansöz (tr)
• Ukrainian: танцюри́стка f (tancjurýstka)
• Urdu: رَقّاصَہ f (raqqāsa)
• Volapük: jidanüdan (vo)
• Yiddish: טענצערין f (tentserin)

euphemism for stripper

• Bulgarian: танцьо́рка f (tancjórka)
• Dutch: exotisch danser m, karakterdanser m, stripdanser m
• Finnish: tanssija (fi), tanssijatar (fi)
• German: Tänzer (de) m, Tänzerin (de) f, exotischer Tänzer m, exotische Tänzerin f
• Greek: χορεύτρια (el) f (choréftria)
• Portuguese: dançarino exótico f, dançarina exótica f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} tantsija
• Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} jerokyha
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} dansator m, ^{(please verify)} dansatrice f; ^{(please verify)} ballerino m, ^{(please verify)} ballerina f (= ballet dancer)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} danser (ku) m or f, ^{(please verify)} semavan (ku) m or f, ^{(please verify)} reqas (ku) m or f, ^{(please verify)} dansoz (ku) f

• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} plesalec (sl) m, ^{(please verify)} plesalka f
• Tupinambá: ^{(please verify)} poraseitara

References

• (thief): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Carden, ancred, carden, cedarn, craned, nacred, narced

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French dancier (“to dance”).

Verb

dancer

1. to dance

Conjugation

• As parler except c becomes ç before a and o. May remain c in older manuscripts.
• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of dancer

infinitive	simple	dancer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2	simple	dançant
	compound	present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle		dancé
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (i’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ilz, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dance	dances	dance	dançons	dancez	dancent
	imperfect	dançois, dançoys	dançois, dançoys	dançoit, dançoyt	dancions, dançons	danciez, dancyez	dançoient, dançoyent
	past historic	dança	danças	dança	dançasmes	dançastes	dancerent
	future	dancerai, danceray	danceras	dancera	dancerons	dancerez	danceront
	conditional	dancerois, danceroys	dancerois, danceroys	danceroit, danceroyt	dancerions, danceryons	danceriez, danceryez	danceroient, danceroyent
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que ie (i’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ilz, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	dance	dances	dance	dançons	dancez	dancent
	imperfect	dançasse	dançasses	dançast	dançassions	dançassiez	dançassent
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dance	—	dançons	dancez	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).

Old French

Verb

dancer

1. Alternative form of dancier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-c, *-cs, *-ct are modified to z, z, zt. In addition, c becomes ç before an a, o or u to keep the /ts/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of dancer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		dancer			avoir dancé
gerund		en dançant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		dançant
past participle		dancé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	danz	dances	dance	dançons	dancez	dancent
	imperfect	dançoie, danceie, dançoe, danceve	dançoies, danceies, dançoes, danceves	dançoit, danceit, dançot, danceve	danciiens, danciens	danciiez, danciez	dançoient, danceient, dançoent, dancevent
	preterite	dançai	danças	dança	dançames	dançastes	dancerent
	future	dancerai	danceras	dancera	dancerons	danceroiz, dancereiz, dancerez	danceront
	conditional	danceroie, dancereie	danceroies, dancereies	danceroit, dancereit	danceriiens, danceriens	danceriiez, danceriez	danceroient, dancereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	danz	danz	danzt	dançons	dancez	dancent
	imperfect	dançasse	dançasses	dançast	dancissons, dancissiens	dancissoiz, dancissez, dancissiez	dançassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	dance	—	dançons	dancez	—