ballet

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

bal·let [ballet ballets] BrE [ˈbæleɪ] NAmE [ˈbæleɪ] noun
1. uncountable a style of dancing that tells a dramatic story with music but no talking or singing
•She wants to be a ballet dancer.
•ballet shoes
2. countable a story or work of art performed by a group of ballet dancers
•‘Swan Lake’ is one of the great classical ballets.
3. countable singular or plural verb a group of dancers who work and perform ballet together
•members of the Royal Ballet

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent.: from French, from Italian balletto, diminutive of ballo ‘dance’, from late Latin ballare ‘to dance’; related to Greek ballizein ‘to dance’.