prima ballerina

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   a leading female ballet dancer

   Broaderballerina

Questions about prima ballerina

What does prima ballerina mean?

prima ballerina means "a leading female ballet dancer".

Is prima ballerina a common word?

prima ballerina 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.