player
see also: Player
Etymology

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere, equivalent to .

Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈpleɪɚ/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈpleɪə(ɹ)/
Noun

player (plural players)

  1. One that plays
    1. One who plays any game or sport.
      Synonyms: laker
    2. (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
      • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene vii], page 194 ↗, column 1:
        All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, merely Players
    3. (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
    4. (gaming, video games) A gamer; a player of video games or similar.
    5. (gambling) A gambler.
    6. (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
    7. (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media.
      Is your CD player broken, or is this one disc damaged?
    8. (computing) A software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as a media player.
  2. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
  3. A participant; one involved in something.
    He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
    • 2011, Suzanne Shale, Moral Leadership in Medicine, page 239:
      Decision realities research recognizes the occupational tribalism identified in occupational realities research, but goes further by paying attention to all the players – patients and lay caregivers included – who participate in negotiating care.
    1. One who participates in a particular type of sexual play.
  4. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:libertine
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  • German: Vorsetzer
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Player
Proper noun
  1. Surname for a sportsman.



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