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playactor

playactor is the alternative form 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

Forms of playactor

pluralplayactors

Questions about playactor

What is playactor the alternative form of?
Playactor is the alternative form of play-actor.

Words near playactor in the dictionary

  1. playables
  2. playact
  3. playacted
  4. playacting
  5. playactings
  6. playactor
  7. playactors
  8. playactress
  9. playactresses
  10. playacts
  11. playaholic

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