ballettomane

B3A1L1L1E1T1T1O1M3A1N1E1

A form of balletomane — A ballet enthusiast.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounballettomane (plural ballettomanes)

plural ballettomanes

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of balletomane

    [...] ballet audience, especially the ballettomanes.

    2009, Johanna Laakkonen, Canon and Beyond: Edvard Fazer and the Imperial Russian Ballet, page 178
    2 more examples

    [...] of ballettomanes, our ballet stood bewildered at this breaking away from the stale tradition of quasi-realistic scenery, of accepted canons of costumes.

    1936, Theatre Street: The Reminiscences of Tamara Karsavina, page 130

    [...] the ballettomane; and now the Archives of the Dance make it possible for the student of ballet to pursue various researches with the certainty that he will never be gravelled for lack of matter.

    1946, Theatre Today, page 34

Origin

  1. Frenchballettomane
  2. Englishballettomane

From French ballettomane. By surface analysis, ballet + -o- + -mane.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

ballettomane. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ballettomane

MLA

“ballettomane.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ballettomane. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ballettomane,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ballettomane.

Source: ballettomane on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.