Playactor

Quick meaning: Playactor is a noun meaning Alternative form of play-actor.

Meaning

Alternative form of play-actor.

Example Sentences

"It's the playactor!" cried he, slashing at my cudgel.

He is Gāṅgo the playactor ("nata"). The stories connected with him, his son Jaya, also a playactor ("Jayanata), and the latter's wife Vidyutprabhā are probably baseless pleasantry.

It is the oldest of saws that every great orator, whether secular or ecclesiastical, has in him many of the attributes of a playactor, and no one can have listened to the most successful of American preachers — Mr. Henry Ward Beecher — whose name has been so long before the public in connection with a painful and humiliating investigation — without seeing how closely his performances on the platform of Plymouth Church draw their inspiration from the stage.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for playactor

Depending on context, synonyms include trouper, barnstormer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trouper, barnstormer, player, stageplayer, theater-goer, theatregoer.

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