Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that plays, especially:
- n. One who participates in a game or sport.
- n. A gambler.
- n. One who performs in theatrical roles.
- n. One who plays a musical instrument.
- n. An active participant: a major player in world affairs.
- n. The mechanism actuating a player piano.
- n. A machine that reproduces recorded audio or audio-visual material.
- n. Slang One who actively seeks out sexual partners and carries on a number of sexual affairs at the same time.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who plays. One who takes part in sports, pastimes, or amusements of any kind.
- n. A contestant in a game or match of any kind; also, one who is in the habit of playing, or who is skilled in, a particular game : as, a chess-player; a billiard-player.
- n. A dramatic performer; an actor; one who enacts characters on the stage.
- n. One who performs on an instrument of music.
- n. In harness-manuf., a small piece of metal attached by links to the mouthpiece of the bridle.
Wiktionary
- n. One who plays any game or sport.
- n. One who plays a part in something; a character
- n. theater An actor in a dramatic play.
- n. music One who plays on a musical instrument.
- n. One who is playful, given to games and other amusement; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
- n. gaming, video games A gamer; a gamester.
- n. gambling A gambler.
- n. informal A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
- n. electronics An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player.
- n. software A software application that plays audio and/or video.
- adj. of something that "plays" itself, like certain automated devices
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
- n. One who plays any game.
- n. A dramatic actor.
- n. One who plays on an instrument of music.
- n. A gamester; a gambler.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
- n. an important participant (as in a business deal)
- n. a theatrical performer
- n. a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
- n. a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
Etymologies
- From Middle English playere, from Old English pleġere ("player, athlete, wrestler"), equivalent to play + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“No word yet on which NFL player will try to pull this off, though noted soccer lover and self-professed soccer player� Chad Ochocinco seems like a prime candidate.”
“The pursuit by Sosa, a Latin player from the Dominican Republic, was entertaining but doomed, Bonds declared.”
“The main American player is Brian Linden, 47 years old, who came to China in 1984 and has been here most of the time since.”
“You are so right - the main player is the ripe tomato!”
“For all the anxiety over his hitting—the Examiner concluded that his “was the most prolonged slump for a name player in modern history”—Mays had for him a typical, which is to say brilliant, season.”
“One year it's because a certain player didn't get chosen to start the game, the next year it's because another player is left off the roster altogether.”
“Much like Batman, the title player in "The Cape" isn't really super.”
“My only question here is, according to the rules of golf a player is allowed a maximum of 14 clubs in his bag, am I going to have to sacrifice my five wood to put this in?”
“The issue of whether the manager or the player is the better long-term asset centres on how much longer Ferguson plans to stay on and whether his influence will be exerted on the succession regime.”
The Guardian: Who do Manchester United value most: Sir Alex Ferguson or Wayne Rooney?
“Playing it in Firefox (3.6, and 3. 5-whatever it was before [over the last couple weeks]) the player is a little weird.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘player’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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MUSIC - ALL TERMS
With focus on non-classical styles, but not excluding terms of the latter.
banjo, accompaniment, acoustic bass, bass guitar, bass clef, ground, brass, cornet, Mute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, arrangement and 866 more...
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Triphthongs
Words with triphthongs in
layer, player, payee, pompeii, tyre, fire, higher, liar, employer, soya, paranoia, sequoia and 14 more...
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Here and Now
Words related to the mental state of "being in the present in the moment".
improvisation, nolens volens, extempore, autoschediastic, in medias res, willy-nilly, egersis, immanence, nunc pro tunc, spontaneity, observant, concentration and 55 more...
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SPOR - chess
escape square, chess, mate, capture, safe square, take, castling, board, piece, move, pawn, attack and 41 more...
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Test words
vacation, tourist, tourist office, travel, read, newspaper, book, magazine, television, music, radio, nightclub and 68 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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My Little Ponies
A list of My Little Pony names from the original (G1) collection. 1982-1992
cotton candy, butterscotch, blossom, blue belle, minty, snuzzle, seashell, bubbles, bow tie, applejack, sunbeam, medley and 352 more...
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Stuffie: Heave-Ho!
Stuffie #3. Stuff you pull.
wagon, leg, finger, door, prank, taffy, heist, stunt, lever, plunger, draught, plug and 46 more...
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Flirtation: attention without intention
coquette, tease, eyeball, player, cruiser, vamp, vixen, siren, tramp, femme fatale
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GAME
multiplayer, join, participate in, role-playing, player, playable, launch, strategy
Tweets
Looking for tweets for player.
seanahan Another is: "The horse raced past the barn fell". Sep 9, 2007
oroboros A parsing challenge: "The player kicked the ball kicked him." Sep 8, 2007