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players

[pley-er]

play·er

[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.
EXPAND
6.
a sound- or image-reproducing machine: a record player; a cassette player; a videodisc 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.
COLLAPSE

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English pleyer, Old English plegere. See play, -er1

coun·ter·play·er, noun
non·play·er, noun
self-play·er, noun
su·per·play·er, noun
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