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player, n.
(players)
freq. cnt. 24
more info a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
<noun.person>   freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 20

participant player
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play
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contestant
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ballplayer, baseball player billiard player bowler card player chess player dart player football player, footballer golfer, golf player, linksman grandmaster hockey player, ice-hockey player lacrosse player most valuable player, MVP playmaker pool player scorer seeded player, seed server shooter soccer player stringer tennis player volleyball player
more info someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
<noun.person>   freq. cnt.: 19 freq. cnt.: 15 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

instrumentalist musician player
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music musicianship music music
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play
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instrument
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member holonym
musical organization, musical organisation, musical group
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accompanist, accompanyist accordionist concertinist bandsman bassist bassoonist bell ringer carillonneur cellist, violoncellist clarinetist, clarinettist flautist, flutist, flute player gambist guitarist, guitar player harmonizer, harmoniser harpist, harper harpsichordist hornist jazz musician, jazzman keyboardist koto player lutist, lutanist, lutenist oboist organist percussionist pianist, piano player piper, bagpiper recorder player rhythm and blues musician rocker, rock 'n' roll musician saxophonist, saxist singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser sitar player soloist trombonist, trombone player trumpeter, cornetist vibist, vibraphonist violinist, fiddler violist
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performer, performing artist
more info 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
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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
more info someone who takes part in an activity
<noun.person>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

participant player

sample sentences

"he was a major player in setting up the corporation"
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participate
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attendant, attender, attendee, meeter discussant bride groom, bridegroom masquerader, masker, masquer sharer, partaker retreatant
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associate
more info a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
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player
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person, individual, someone, soul, mortal, somebody