What is the definition of
player
1.
[ noun ]
(games) a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
Synonyms:
participant
Related terms:
contestant
ballplayer
football_player
golfer
most_valuable_player
grandmaster
lacrosse_player
volleyball_player
hockey_player
card_player
bowler
billiard_player
seeded_player
scorer
server
tennis_player
dart_player
pool_player
shooter
soccer_player
chess_player
stringer
play
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2.
[ noun ]
(music,performing arts) someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
Synonyms:
musician
instrumentalist
Related terms:
performer
soloist
pianist
singer
violinist
jazz_musician
flutist
piper
trumpeter
organist
guitarist
bassoonist
harpist
rocker
sitar_player
percussionist
keyboardist
violist
saxophonist
recorder_player
harpsichordist
bell_ringer
accompanist
trombonist
koto_player
cellist
carillonneur
lutist
harmoniser
rhythm_and_blues_musician
oboist
accordionist
bassist
hornist
clarinetist
vibist
bandsman
musical_organization
3.
[ noun ]
(performing arts) a theatrical performer
Synonyms:
actor
role_player
thespian
histrion
Related terms:
performer
actress
star
leading_man
mime
plant
walk-on
comedian
ham
barnstormer
barrymore
supernumerary
howard
burton
bing_crosby
Bogart
drew
upstager
allen
astaire
heavy
barrymore
barrymore
booth
burbage
ingenue
buster_keaton
chevalier
cagney
jack_lemmon
alfred_lunt
dean
de_niro
depardieu
o'toole
douglas_elton_fairbanks
douglas_fairbanks_jr.
fonda
clark_gable
david_garrick
gibson
arthur_john_gielgud
cary_grant
scene-stealer
alec_guinness
hanks
harrison
heming
dustin_hoffman
anthony_hopkins
harold_clayton_lloyd
al_jolson
boris_karloff
edmund_kean
cooper
eugene_curran_kelly
charles_laughton
bruce_lee
laszlo_lowestein
bela_ferenc_blasko
coward
understudy
tragedian
e._g._marshall
martin
james_mason
mitchum
dudley_moore
newman
baron_olivier_of_birghton
character_actor
poitier
charles_robert_redford
ralph_richardson
edward_g._robinson
george_c._scott
peter_sellers
francis_albert_sinatra
otis_skinner
konstantin_sergeevich_stanislavsky
james_maitland_stewart
erich_von_stroheim
spencer_tracy
sir_herbert_beerbohm_tree
peter_alexander_ustinov
duke_wayne
george_orson_welles
movie_actor
granville-barker
act
act
4.
[ noun ]
Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 6020
5.
[ noun ]
an important participant (as in a business deal)
Examples:
"he was a major player in setting up the corporation"
Related terms:
participant
commercial_enterprise
Similar spelling:
plyer
plier
plower