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Player   /plˈeɪər/   Listen
Player

noun
1.
A person who participates in or is skilled at some game.  Synonym: participant.
2.
Someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession).  Synonyms: instrumentalist, musician.
3.
A theatrical performer.  Synonyms: actor, histrion, role player, thespian.
4.
A person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously.
5.
An important participant (as in a business deal).



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"Player" Quotes from Famous Books



... fulmen, or empty Noise, when it has not the Sound of the Oaken Plant in it. I know it has been given out by those who are Enemies to the Trunk-maker, that he has sometimes been bribed to be in the Interest of a bad Poet, or a vicious Player; but this is a Surmise which has no Foundation: his Stroaks are always just, and his Admonitions seasonable; he does not deal about his Blows at Random, but always hits the right Nail upon the Head. [The [3]] inexpressible Force wherewith he lays them on, sufficiently ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... musicians to play an even faster dance than before. When that one had fallen exhausted to the ground, Ghitza took on a third and a fourth. Then he began to dance with the maidens. The fiddler's string broke and the guitar player's fingers were numb. The sun went to rest behind the mountains and the moon rose in the sky to watch over her little ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... in her eyes showed that she was all a-tingle with the unusual pleasure the evening was affording her. She laughed and looked and listened, sure that the scene she was enjoying was as good as a play. She had never seen a play, it is true; but she had read of them, and of player folk, until she knew she was fitted to judge of ...
— The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor • Annie Fellows Johnston
... Friend the Hostess has it in a Play too, I take it, Ends which you pick up behind the Scenes, when you go to be laught at even by the Player-Women. ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn
... gravely, "am a mathematician by instinctive preference and early training, but I have never been able to cross the 'Ass's Bridge,' the Forty-seventh problem of Euclid. Incidentally, I may mention that I am a golf-player with ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen


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