plaier

Noun

player (plural players)

1. One who plays any game or sport.
   • He is a player for the Australian team.

   Synonyms:

   laker

2. An actor in a dramatic play.
   • All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, merely Playersc. 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...
3. One who plays on a musical instrument.
4. A gamer; a person of video games or similar.
   • He is an avid Minecraft player.
5. A gambler.
6. (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
   • But up to this time the application of the player mechanism had been confined to reed instruments, the piano manufacturers having successfully resisted the introduction of the player mechanism into the piano; but, in the meantime, the manufacturers of players had grown strong and the manufacturers...1915, John McTammany, The Technical History of the Player

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