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actor

1

[ ak-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
  2. a person who does something; participant.


Actor

2

[ ak-ter ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. a brother of King Augeas, sometimes believed to be the father, by Molione, of Eurytus and Cteatus.

actor

/ ˈæktə /

noun

  1. a person who acts in a play, film, broadcast, etc
  2. informal.
    a person who puts on a false manner in order to deceive others (often in the phrase bad actor )


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Usage

The term actor is almost universally used nowadays to refer to people of either gender who act

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Other Words From

  • non·actor noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of actor1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin āctor, equivalent to āg- ( act ) + -tor -tor

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Example Sentences

When Gunnar started her doctoral work in the 1970s, researchers had already mapped out the key actors in the stress response.

By the time Gunnar started work on her PhD in the 1970s, researchers had mapped out the key actors in this process.

Movie makers and video-game developers regularly use motion-capture technology to record human actors.

One of the underrated aspects of Antifa is that spreads accurate information about the bad actors on the far right.

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The championship cast includes out actors Alan Cummings and Natalie Morales and LGBT ally Sarah Silverman.

BEST ACTOR Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice There is no better actor—right now—than Joaquin Phoenix.

But I had won the British Award, Best Foreign Actor, so I went.

David Prowse, the actor who portrayed Darth Vader, wished to come back but had to turn down the role because of ill health.

In a bizarre matchup, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor came for the 20-year-old singer this past July in Ibiza.

I actually found it quite pleasurable, and it prepared me for this strange, gypsy lifestyle of an actor.

He was a bookbinder previous to going upon the stage; and acquired a high degree of reputation as an actor.

The actor, whose name was Taylor, could not remember the name assigned to him in his part of the play.

Had the actor memorised either of these Correlations, he would not have forgotten Numitorius in his performance.

He remembered Tony's words later: that another actor was expected with whose entry the piece would turn more real—turn tragic.

What actor could play Falstaff after riding forty miles and being well thrashed?

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