photoplayer
photoplayer noun: a film actor.
Noun
photoplayer (plural photoplayers)
- A film actor.
- The photoplayer who asks for food, stretches his hand toward the spread table and looks more or less appealing, according to the circumstances in which he finds himself.1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 7
- An orchestrion in the silent film era.
- Small theatres usually had a photoplayer or "pit organ" located beneath the screen in the orchestra pit.1967, Q. David Bowers, A Guidebook of Automatic Musical Instruments, volume 1, Vestal Press, page 7
Forms of photoplayer
| plural | photoplayers |
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Origin of photoplayer
From photo + player or photoplay + -er
Questions about photoplayer
- What does photoplayer mean?
- Photoplayer means a film actor.
- What part of speech is photoplayer?
- Photoplayer is a noun.
- What is the plural of photoplayer?
- The plural of photoplayer is photoplayers.
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