BALLET POSITION

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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)