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rôle-play

rôle-play is the dated form of roleplay.

Meaning of roleplay

Verb

roleplay (third-person singular simple present roleplays, present participle roleplaying, simple past and past participle roleplayed)

  1. (intransitive) To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people.
    • To spice up their sex life, they like to roleplay.
  2. (transitive) To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.
    • He likes to roleplay a vampire.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To act out a social role, especially one that one does not truly belong to.
    • He talks like he's some scrappy bootstrap entrepreneur but he's just some old money rich kid roleplaying.

See all 5 meanings of roleplay

Forms of rôle-play

Verb
third-person singular presentrôle-plays
present participlerôle-playing
past participlerôle-played
pastrôle-played
Noun
pluralrôle-plays

Questions about rôle-play

What is rôle-play the dated form of?
Rôle-play is the dated form of roleplay.

Words near rôle-play in the dictionary

  1. rôle played
  2. rôle playing
  3. rôle playing game
  4. rôle playing games
  5. rôle plays
  6. rôle-play
  7. rôle-played
  8. rôle-player
  9. rôle-players
  10. rôle-playing
  11. rôle-playing game

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rôle-play (page history and authors); roleplay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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