DANCERS

"DANCERS" is a plural of: dancer.

Date "DANCERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: DANCERS

Crosswords: DANCERS

The sandwiches are for the dancers. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Your dancers suck. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne)

You kids change partners more than square dancers! (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Film with Three Dancers (1970)

Dancers in the Dark (1932)

The Dancers (1930)

Marathon Dancers (1923)

The Tango Dancers (1920)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Masked Dancers (reference)

• The Joy of Dancing, the Next Steps: Ballroom, Latin and Jive for Social Dancers for All Ages (reference)

• Twelve Degas Dancers Bookmarks with Bookmark (reference)

• Who's Driving Your Bus?: Codependent Business Behaviors of Workaholics, Perfectionists, Martyrs, Tap Dancers, Caretakers, & People-Pleasers (reference)

• Teaching young dancers : muscular co-ordination in classical ballet (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Amateur Dancers (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Indian dancers at a pow wow in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA.

Dancers perform during an Hispanic Heritage activity at BLM's Eastern States Officer. Credit: Unknown.

U. S. Army Hospital Number 101, St. Nazaire, France. : Dancers from play given by nurses and enlisted men. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Officer of the Deck, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Howard W. Milke, USNR, welcomes entertainer Pascacio Alinangohan as he boards the ship in 1945. Mr. Alinangohan, a former guerrilla Captain whose stage name is "Professor Paz", led a troupe of dancers, singers and guitarists in a show for the carrier's crew. The plaque behind them features a quotation from the speech given by Philippine President Manuel Quezon at USS Bataan's launching ceremonies on 1 August 1943. For more extensive information, see Photo # NH 47859 (extended caption). Credit: NAVY.

Female Samoan dancers in the South Pacific. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tropical ballet tries classic New York, N.Y. --a group of the Katherine Dunham dancers are shown in mid-air during a rehearsal of the classical ballet, "Mozart's Sonata in D Major," which they will present at the annual dinner of the Spanish Refugee Appea. Credit: Library of Congress.

Outdoor dance performance with dancers in classical drapery, possibly in Long Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dancers at Cumberland Homesteads, Crossville, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dancers entering hall. Marshalltown, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Denishawn dancers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The dancers stood still, panting with fatigue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Minorities

Poland

In June the Philadanco dance troupe, which was touring the country as part of the Eighth Annual International Dance Conference and Festival in Warsaw, Poznan, and Bytom, reported that in Bytom, some of the dancers were called "monkeys" and "animal" in English and had objects thrown at them. (references)

Worker Rights

Iceland

The clubs are allowed to bring in as many dancers as they want. (references)

Iceland

Two Danish dancers lodged a similar complaint against the same employer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

A company of dancers

Expressions using "DANCERS": merry dancers ♦ the merry dancers. Additional references.

Ending with "DANCERS": actor-dancers, non-dancers.

Albanian

agim polar (merry dancers, north lights, northern lights). (various references)

Chinese 

佾 (row of dancers at sacrifices). (various references)

German

Tänzer (dancer). (various references)

Hungarian

északi fény (aurora borealis, merry dancers, northern lights, petty dancers, streamers). (various references)

Italian

ballerini. (various references)

Pig Latin

ancersday.(various references)

Romanian

aurora borealã (the merry dancers). (various references)

Russian 

северное сияние (aurora borialis, auroras, merry dancers, north lights, northern lights, polar lights). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

živahni igrači (merry dancers). (various references)

Spanish

bailarines, bailadores. (various references)

Swedish

dansare (dancer). (various references)

Ukrainian

північне сяйво (merry dancers, north-light). (various references)

chore, chori, choris, choro, choros, chorum, chorus, prochorum. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "DANCERS": nondancers, ropedancers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"DANCERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Danckerts, danders, Dankwerts, Dauncer, dna, donkers, duncery. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ascend, cadres, caners, casern, cedarn, cedars, craned, cranes, dancer, dances, denars, nacred, nacres, rances, redans, sacred, sander, scared, snared.

-2 letters: acned, acnes, acred, acres, arced, cades, cadre, caned, caner, canes, cards, cared, cares, carns, carse, cased, cedar, crane, daces, dance, dares, darns, deans, dears, denar, earns, escar, nacre, narcs, nards, nares, nears.

+1 letter: ascender, candlers, durances, endosarc, reascend.

+2 letters: absconder, acridines, acridness, advancers, ardencies, ascenders, calendars, calenders, chandlers, coarsened, colanders, conelrads, credenzas, decanters, dicentras, dracaenas, endocarps, endosarcs, increased, ordnances, radiances, ransacked, reascends, riddances, secondary, transcend, transduce, underacts, unscarred.

+3 letters: absconders, adherences, ancestored, archfiends, carbonades, carronades, chlordanes, commanders, contrasted, corianders, cornbreads, cradlesong, deaconries, decenaries, declarants, decreasing, discarnate, discrepant, dormancies, endarchies, endurances, franchised, fricandoes, gasconader, hindrances, landscaper, mordancies, nondancers, ordinances, radiancies, rancidness, reascended, redactions, reductants, sacredness, scherzando, scorpaenid, screenland, transacted, transcends, transduced, transducer, transduces, transected, undercards, underclass, undercoats, verdancies.