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rôleplay

rôleplay verb: dated spelling of roleplay.

Verb

rôleplay (third-person singular simple present rôleplays, present participle rôleplaying, simple past and past participle rôleplayed)

  1. Dated spelling of roleplay.
    • Looking at Traveller, I’d say offhand that the two most alien major races are the K’kree and the Hivers. But even they can be “explained” (well enough to rôleplay, anyway).1998 December 11, Jeff Zeitlin, “Holy grail of SFRPGs? (re: traveller et al.)”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet)
    • Talking of sex rôleplaying, I must phone Janice :)1999 January 2, Ouroboros, “Getting to know you more”, in uk.media.tv.friends (Usenet)

Noun

rôleplay (countable and uncountable, plural rôleplays)

  1. Dated spelling of roleplay.
    • On this basis it becomes clear why Bühler occasionally describes the symbols as rôle-indicating signs (cf. 1934: 381); though they are capable of undertaking a transference from the occurrence of the speech situation, they are unable to do without deictic pointers to produce the rôleplay in...1983, Gérard Deledalle, Semiotics and Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Perpignan Symposium, John Benjamin’s Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 124, →ISBN
    • Find a friend and attempt the following rôleplay in order to clarify the dialogue:
      Friend: “I think it is sunny in London.”
      You: “I think it is sunny in Brighton.”
      Friend: “Well, yes, but not as sunny.”1998 August 19, tim_walls, “Thicky Passengers!”, in uk.railway (Usenet)

Forms of rôleplay

Verb
third-person singular presentrôleplays
present participlerôleplaying
past participlerôleplayed
pastrôleplayed
Noun
pluralrôleplays

Origin of rôleplay

From rôle + play.

Questions about rôleplay

What does rôleplay mean?
Rôleplay means dated spelling of roleplay.
What part of speech is rôleplay?
Rôleplay can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of rôleplay?
The past tense of rôleplay is rôleplayed.

Words near rôleplay in the dictionary

  1. rôle-players
  2. rôle-playing
  3. rôle-playing game
  4. rôle-playing games
  5. rôle-plays
  6. rôleplay
  7. rôleplayed
  8. rôleplaying
  9. rôleplays
  10. rôles
  11. rônier palm

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