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Definition of ballet : 1. A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
2. A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, - most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
3. An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
4. The company of persons who perform the ballet.

Synonyms:

dance, concert dance, modern dance

choreography, pageant, mystery, pantomime, melodrama, spectacle, improvisation, presentation, panorama, scene, teleplay, excitement, variety, skit, art, rendering, comedy, vaudeville, show, drama, characterization, Broadway, suspense, theater, production, tragedy, improvisational drama, burlesque, mime

concerto, arrangement, ballad, air, bebop, instrumental, composition, psalm, chorus, concert, music, harmony, lyric, jazz, quartet, blues, tune, melody, syncopation, score, hymn, symphony, lullaby, song, carol, sonata, ditty, aria, vocalization, serenade

Usage examples:

• Ah, to be sure: no ballet! - "Imaginary Interviews", W. D. Howells.
• Malibran danced almost as well as she sang, and once took a principal part in a ballet. - "Records of a Girlhood", Frances Ann Kemble.
• Alas for the corps de ballet and the gravity of the audience! - "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece", Various.