BALLET POSITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ballet position mean? 

• BALLET POSITION (noun)
  The noun BALLET POSITION has 1 sense:

1. classical position of the body and especially the feet in ballet

  Familiarity information: BALLET POSITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALLET POSITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Classical position of the body and especially the feet in ballet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("ballet position" is a kind of...):

attitude; position; posture (the arrangement of the body and its limbs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ballet position"):

arabesque (position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose)