actor
1 Americannoun
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a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
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a person who does something; participant.
noun
noun
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a person who acts in a play, film, broadcast, etc
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informal a person who puts on a false manner in order to deceive others (often in the phrase bad actor )
Usage
The term actor is almost universally used nowadays to refer to people of either gender who act
Other Word Forms
- nonactor noun
Etymology
Origin of actor
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin āctor, equivalent to āg- ( act ) + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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I think we can all, as actors, relate to not getting something you are sure you deserved.
From Los Angeles Times
Her home is a shrine to Regency England; a life-size cutout of actor Colin Firth—from what many consider the best of the many renditions of “Pride & Prejudice”—stands watch over her much-ruffled bedroom.
It opens in Portofino, the Italian town where the actor Richard Burton first proposed to her - and where she spent four of her eight honeymoons.
From BBC
Recently, actor Samuel L. Jackson joined their roster of supporters.
From Los Angeles Times
He’d written a mediocre poem but had performed like a trained actor, which made his mediocre poem sound excellent.
From Literature
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