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player

1

[ pley-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that plays.
  2. a person who takes part or is skilled in some game or sport.
  3. a person who plays parts on the stage; an actor.
  4. a performer on a musical instrument.
  5. Informal. a participant, as in a conference or business deal.
  6. a machine or piece of software that reproduces sound or images: a videodisc player;

    a record player;

    a videodisc player;

    a digital media player.

  7. a gambler.
  8. Slang. a person engaged in illicit or illegal activity, especially a pimp.
  9. a mechanical device by which a musical instrument, as a player piano, is played automatically.


Player

2

[ pley-er ]

noun

  1. Gary, born 1935, South African golfer.

player

1

/ ˈpleɪə /

noun

  1. a person who participates in or is skilled at some game or sport
  2. a person who plays a game or sport professionally
  3. a person who plays a musical instrument
  4. an actor
  5. informal.
    a participant, esp a powerful one, in a particular field of activity

    a leading city player

  6. the playing mechanism in a Pianola


Player

2

/ ˈpleɪə /

noun

  1. PlayerGary1935MSouth AfricanSPORT AND GAMES: golfer Gary (ˈɡærɪ). born 1935, South African golfer: winner of nine major championships (1959–78), including the British Open (1959, 1968, 1974)

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Other Words From

  • counter·player noun
  • non·player noun
  • self-player noun
  • super·player noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of player1

before 1000; Middle English pleyer, Old English plegere. See play, -er 1

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Example Sentences

In every turn of the game, both players flip over and reveal the top card of their deck.

His players considered boycotting a playoff game in 2014 after audio tapes featuring former owner Donald Sterling were revealed.

From Fortune

Breanna Stewart has been, by a pretty clear measure, the most valuable player in the league as a whole so far.

If players have gotten sick of one another, expect it to only get worse in the coming weeks.

In the first, a player takes actions, such as moving animals to let them mate or obtaining money.

Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.

By setting no goals, the player must find their own purpose.

And that gets to the heart of what makes the game so incredible: By staying silent, it turns the player into the game master.

When he is awarded Player of the Match while competing for India in England, he is given champagne at the ceremony.

His accuser was smeared and demeaned, and a star football player was allowed to keep on playing.

The player to his right holds eight, the player to his left has only six—the right side wins, the left side loses.

The croupier pushes the seven hundred and forty pounds of the unlucky player a foot nearer to the bank.

But "the cards never forgive," and as a rule Dame Fortune is relentless to the reckless player.

However, I have felt some comfort in knowing that it is not Liszt's genius alone that makes him such a player.

In the conservatory he seemed to be a very passionate player; but, somehow, in public that was not the case.

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