corps de ballet

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   the chorus of a ballet company

   Synonymsensemble

   Broaderchorus

   Part ofballet company

Questions about corps de ballet

What does corps de ballet mean?

corps de ballet means "the chorus of a ballet company".

What is another word for corps de ballet?

Close synonyms include ensemble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corps de ballet a common word?

corps de ballet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.