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[ pley-er ] / ˈpleɪ ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR player ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person or thing that plays. a person who takes part or is skilled in some game or sport. a person who plays parts on the stage; an actor. a performer on a musical instrument. Informal. a participant, as in a conference or business deal. a machine or piece of software that reproduces sound or images: a record player; a videodisc player; a digital media player. a gambler. Slang. a person engaged in illicit or illegal activity, especially a pimp. a mechanical device by which a musical instrument, as a player piano, is played automatically. Origin of playerbefore 1000; Middle English pleyer, Old English plegere. See play, -er1 OTHER WORDS FROM playercoun·ter·play·er, nounnon·play·er, nounself-player, nounsu·per·play·er, nounWords nearby playerplayday, play doctor, Play-Doh, playdown, played out, player, player character, player piano, play fair, play false, play fast and loose Definition for player (2 of 2)[ pley-er ] / ˈpleɪ ər /
nounGary, born 1935, South African golfer. Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for playerIn every turn of the game, both players flip over and reveal the top card of their deck. Can You Cover The Globe?|Zach Wissner-Gross|August 28, 2020|FiveThirtyEight His players considered boycotting a playoff game in 2014 after audio tapes featuring former owner Donald Sterling were revealed. Athletes, from the NBA to tennis stars, are striking to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake|kdunn6|August 27, 2020|Fortune Breanna Stewart has been, by a pretty clear measure, the most valuable player in the league as a whole so far. There’s No WNBA All-Star Game This Year, But We Picked The Rosters Anyway|Howard Megdal|August 26, 2020|FiveThirtyEight If players have gotten sick of one another, expect it to only get worse in the coming weeks. Fighting Didn’t Stop In The NHL Bubble|Josh Planos|August 26, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
In the first, a player takes actions, such as moving animals to let them mate or obtaining money. The board game Endangered shows just how hard conservation can be|Sarah Zielinski|August 21, 2020|Science News By setting no goals, the player must find their own purpose. Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST And that gets to the heart of what makes the game so incredible: By staying silent, it turns the player into the game master. Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST The player starts out with a fleet of three or four ships (depending on the machine), which he operates one at a time. ‘Asteroids’ & The Dawn of the Gamer Age|David Owen|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST When NFL player Ray Rice beats his wife, the media is outraged and demands action. Should Twitter Suspend LGBT Engineer Accused Of Raping Her Wife?|Emily Shire|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Consider that in 1970, there was one 300-pound player in the National Football League. College Football Fattens Players Up and Then Abandons Them|Evin Demirel|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST A player who gives the odds of a piece, may give it each game from the king's or queen's side, at his option. Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million|Sarah Josepha Hale The deal shall be finished when every player has received five cards. Round Games with Cards|W. H. Peel The player whose answer reveals to him the proverb, must go outside in his place. Games For All Occasions|Mary E. Blain Matt will put a team in the field worth beating, and we all know what a player he is himself when he wants to do the right thing. One player in the group, generally self-appointed, but sometimes chosen by popular consent, does the "counting out." Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium|Jessie H. Bancroft
British Dictionary definitions for player (1 of 2)
nouna person who participates in or is skilled at some game or sport a person who plays a game or sport professionally a person who plays a musical instrument an actor informal a participant, esp a powerful one, in a particular field of activitya leading city player See record player the playing mechanism in a Pianola British Dictionary definitions for player (2 of 2)
nounGary (ˈɡærɪ). born 1935, South African golfer: winner of nine major championships (1959–78), including the British Open (1959, 1968, 1974) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to playercompetitor, athlete, participant, member, rookie, professional, pro, opponent, star, actor, performer, musician, artist, contestant, amateur, sweat, champ, jock, thespian, impersonator |