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play-actors

play-actors is the plural of play-actor.

Meaning of play-actor

Noun

play-actor (plural play-actors)

  1. An actor who performs on stage, especially one who is part of an acting troupe.
    • Suppose Bacon wrote the plays, and that there is no cipher in them ; suppose he threw them from him as " trifles " ; used them to eke out his small income by dividing the profits with the play-actor, Shakespeare, and thought no more about them, and cared nothing for them; and suppose they were...1892, The Arena - Volume 7, page 747

Questions about play-actors

What is play-actors the plural of?
Play-actors is the plural of play-actor.

Words near play-actors in the dictionary

  1. play-acting
  2. play-actings
  3. play-action pass
  4. play-action passes
  5. play-actor
  6. play-actors
  7. play-actress
  8. play-actresses
  9. play-acts
  10. play-book
  11. play-books

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