player

Definition

  • noun: a person who plays a sport or game
  • noun: one that 'plays'
  • synonyms: roscius, actor, actress

Examples

  • Even the movie's 'bit players' [=people who perform very small roles] are excellent.

  • The other people on the staff don't like him because he's not a 'team player'.

  • The band's lead guitar 'player' hurt his hand and couldn't play.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...would have made weep the burning eyes of heaven and passion in the gods Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I Is it not monstrous that this player here but in a fiction, in a dream of passion... ...could force his soul so to his whole conceit? That from her working all his visage manned, (..)
    2015 Hamlet