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histrion ThesaurusNoun | 1. | histrion - a theatrical performer actor, thespian, role player, playeractress - a female actorbarnstormer, playactor, play-actor, trouper - an actor who travels around the country presenting playscharacter actor - an actor who specializes in playing supporting rolescomedian - an actor in a comedyham actor, ham - an unskilled actor who overactsheavy - an actor who plays villainous rolesingenue - an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girlleading man - actor who plays the leading male rolemime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist - an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expressionperformer, performing artist - an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audienceplant - an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audiencereenactor - a person who enacts a role in an event that occurred earlierscene-stealer - an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene; "babies are natural scene-stealers"movie actor, screen actor - an actor who plays a role in a filmprincipal, star, lead - an actor who plays a principal roleextra, spear carrier, supernumerary - a minor actor in crowd scenestragedian - an actor who specializes in tragic rolesunderstudy, standby - an actor able to replace a regular performer when requiredupstager - a selfish actor who upstages the other actorswalk-on - plays a small part in a dramatic production |
Histrion
Histrion (1) An actor in ancient Rome. For the most part histrions were freedmen. (Only the particularly famous ones were respected.) They formed a troupe headed by an actor who had once been only a troupe member. Originally, they performed without masks, which were introduced in the first century B.C.. (2) A wandering folk actor in the early Middle Ages (ninth-nth centuries). A histrion was simultaneously a storyteller, musician, dancer, singer, and animal trainer. Histrions united into special guilds, from which subsequently circles of amateur actors were sometimes formed. In France histrions were known as jongleurs, in Germany, Spielmänner, in Poland, franty, and in Russia, skomorokhi. They were persecuted by secular and church authorities. REFERENCEIstoriia zapadnoevropeiskogo teatra, vol. 1. Edited by S. S. Mokul’skii. Moscow, 1956.histrion
Synonyms for histrionnoun a theatrical performerSynonyms- actor
- thespian
- role player
- player
Related Words- actress
- barnstormer
- playactor
- play-actor
- trouper
- character actor
- comedian
- ham actor
- ham
- heavy
- ingenue
- leading man
- mime
- mimer
- mummer
- pantomimer
- pantomimist
- performer
- performing artist
- plant
- reenactor
- scene-stealer
- movie actor
- screen actor
- principal
- star
- lead
- extra
- spear carrier
- supernumerary
- tragedian
- understudy
- standby
- upstager
- walk-on
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