Word

actor, n.
(actors)
freq. cnt. 14

a theatrical performer
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 15 freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 1

actor histrion player role player thespian

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act act

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play play

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thespian

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performer, performing artist

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actress barnstormer, playactor, play-actor, trouper character actor comedian ham, ham actor heavy ingenue leading man mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist plant reenactor scene-stealer screen actor, movie actor star, principal, lead supernumerary, spear carrier, extra tragedian understudy, standby upstager walk-on

instance hyponym

Allen, Woody Allen, Allen Stewart Konigsberg Astaire, Fred Astaire Barrymore, Maurice Barrymore, Herbert Blythe Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore Barrymore, John Barrymore Bogart, Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey DeForest Bogart Booth, John Wilkes Booth Burbage, Richard Burbage Burton, Richard Burton Cagney, Jimmy Cagney, James Cagney Chevalier, Maurice Chevalier Cooper, Gary Cooper, Frank Cooper Coward, Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward Cronyn, Hume Cronyn, Hume Blake Cronyn Crosby, Bing Crosby, Harry Lillis Crosby Dean, James Dean, James Byron Dean De Niro, Robert De Niro Depardieu, Gerard Depardieu Drew, John Drew Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Julius Ullman Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Fonda, Henry Fonda Gable, Clark Gable, William Clark Gable Garrick, David Garrick Gibson, Mel Gibson, Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud, Arthur John Gielgud Grant, Cary Grant Granville-Barker, Harley Granville-Barker Guinness, Alec Guinness, Sir Alec Guinness Hanks, Tom Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks Harrison, Rex Harrison, Sir Rex Harrison, Reginald Carey Harrison Heming, Hemminge, John Heming, John Hemminge Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman Hopkins, Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins Howard, Leslie Howard, Leslie Howard Stainer Jolson, Al Jolson, Asa Yoelson Karloff, Boris Karloff, William Henry Pratt Kean, Edmund Kean Keaton, Buster Keaton, Joseph Francis Keaton Kelly, Gene Kelly, Eugene Curran Kelly Laughton, Charles Laughton Lee, Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kam Lemmon, Jack Lemmon, John Uhler Lloyd, Harold Lloyd, Harold Clayton Lloyd Lorre, Peter Lorre, Laszlo Lowestein Lugosi, Bela Lugosi, Bela Ferenc Blasko Lunt, Alfred Lunt Marshall, E. G. Marshall Martin, Steve Martin Mason, James Mason, James Neville Mason Mitchum, Robert Mitchum Moore, Dudley Moore, Dudley Stuart John Moore Newman, Paul Newman, Paul Leonard Newman Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier of Birghton O'Toole, Peter O'Toole, Peter Seamus O'Toole Poitier, Sidney Poitier Redford, Robert Redford, Charles Robert Redford Richardson, Ralph Richardson, Sir Ralph David Richardson Robinson, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Goldenberg Robinson Scott, George C. Scott Sellers, Peter Sellers Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Francis Albert Sinatra Skinner, Otis Skinner Stanislavsky, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, James Maitland Stewart Strasberg, Lee Strasberg, Israel Strassberg Stroheim, Erich von Stroheim Tracy, Spencer Tracy Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Ustinov, Sir Peter Ustinov, Peter Alexander Ustinov Wayne, John Wayne, Duke Wayne Welles, Orson Welles, George Orson Welles

a person who acts and gets things done
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actor doer worker

sample sentences

"he's a principal actor in this affair"
"when you want something done get a doer"
"he's a miracle worker"

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act

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do do

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work

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hypernym

person, individual, someone, soul, mortal, somebody

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demon eager beaver, busy bee, live wire, sharpie, sharpy energizer, energiser, vitalizer, vitaliser, animator go-getter, whizz-kid, whiz-kid, ball of fire man of action, man of deeds powerhouse, human dynamo, ball of fire, fireball