nureyev

1. 1.

   Russian dancer who was often the partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn and who defected to the United States in 1961 (born in 1938)

   SynonymsRudolf Nureyev

   Broaderdancer

Other forms of nureyev

plural

nureyevs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nureyev

What does nureyev mean?

nureyev means "Russian dancer who was often the partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn and who defected to the United States in 1961 (born in 1938)".

How many syllables are in nureyev?

nureyev has 3 syllables: nu-re-yev. The stress falls on "re". In IPA it is /nɚˈaɪəv/.

What is another word for nureyev?

Close synonyms include Rudolf Nureyev. 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 nureyev a common word?

nureyev is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.