Word.ws English Dictionary

prima ballerina

prima ballerina noun: the leading ballerina in a dance company.

Noun

prima ballerina (plural prima ballerinas)

  1. The leading ballerina in a dance company.
    • This elaborate ballet is a little too long for a modern audience, the action is not always clear to those who do not understand the language of gesture, while the elaborate and extremely difficult movements of the prima ballerina lose part of the effect they made in the far-off days of Fanny...1911 October 28, The Illustrated London News, volume CXXXIX, number 3784, page 678

Forms of prima ballerina

pluralprima ballerinas

Origin of prima ballerina

From Italian.

Questions about prima ballerina

What does prima ballerina mean?
Prima ballerina means the leading ballerina in a dance company.
What part of speech is prima ballerina?
Prima ballerina is a noun.
What is the plural of prima ballerina?
The plural of prima ballerina is prima ballerinas.

Words near prima ballerina in the dictionary

  1. prim and proper
  2. Prim's algorithm
  3. Prim-Dijkstra algorithm
  4. Prim-Jarník algorithm
  5. prima
  6. prima ballerina
  7. prima ballerinas
  8. prima donna
  9. prima donnaish
  10. prima donnas
  11. prima facia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prima ballerina (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “prima ballerina.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/prima_ballerina. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.