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Definitions: Actor |
ActorNoun1. A theatrical performer. 2. A person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "actor" was first used: sometime around 1384. (references) |
Etymology: Actor \Ac"tor\, noun. [Latin expression actor, from agere to act.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Computing | Actor 1. |
Fine Arts | A performer on the stage. The term actor is strictly applicable to players on the legitimate stage rather than to those in music halls, who are usually called artistes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Portrays role in dramatic production to interpret character or present characterization to audience: Rehearses part to learn lines and cues as directed. Interprets serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience for stage, motion picture, television, radio, or other media production. May write or adapt own material. May dance and sing. May direct self and others in production [DIRECTOR, MOTION PICTURE (motion picture); DIRECTOR, STAGE (amuse. & rec.)]. May read from script or book, utilizing minimum number of stage properties and relying mainly on changes of voice and inflection to hold audience's attention and be designated Dramatic Reader (amuse. & rec.). May be designated according to gender of worker or type of role portrayed as Actress (amuse. & rec.); Character Actor (amuse. & rec.); Character Actress (amuse. & rec.); Ingenue (amuse. & rec.); Juvenile (amuse. & rec.). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in films, television, theater, radio, video games or even on the street. In addition to playing dramatic roles, actors may also sing or dance. A female actor is sometimes called an actress.
See: List of male movie actors , List of female movie actors , List of male theater actors and List of female theater actors
See also: acting
The first recorded case of an actor performing took place in 534 B.C (probably on November 23rd, though the changes in calendar over the years make it hard to determine exactly) when the Greek performer Thespus stepped on to the stage at the Theatre Dionysus and became the first person to speak words as a character in a play. Prior to that, stories were told in song and dance and in third person narrative, but no one had assumed the role of a character in a story. In reverence to Thespus, actors are formally referred to as thespians. Theatrical myth to this day maintains that Thespus exists as a mischeivious spirit, and disasters in the theatre are sometimes blamed on his ghostly intervention.
In graphical video games, an actor is a character uncontrolled by the player, except for his mimic and movements. In the computing sense, especially in the Unified Modeling Language, an actor plays a role.
Today, the term "actor" is frequently used by some to refer to both men and women, considering the term "actress" to be sexist. However, the term actress is still in widespread use.
An actor usually plays a fictional character. In the case of a true story (or a fictional story that involves a real person) he or she may play a real person (or a fictional version of the same), possibly him- or herself.
See also: gender-specific job title, non-sexist language
History
In Greek mythology, Actor was the father of Menoetius and Astyoche. He was king of Opus in Locris.Term
In the past, the term "actor" was restricted to men. Women did not begin performing until the 17th century. When they did the term "actress" was used. In the ancient and medieval world, it was considered disgraceful for a woman to go on the stage, and this belief continued right up until the 17th century, when in Venice it was broken. In the time of William Shakespeare, women's roles were played by men or boys, though there is some evidence to suggest that women disguised as men also (illegally) performed.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Actor."
Synonyms: ActorSynonyms: doer (n), histrion (n), player (n), role player (n), thespian (n), worker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Action | Be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with; (meddle). |
Actor; (doer). | |
Affectation | Affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan; (deceiver); petit maitre; (fop); flatterer; coquette, prude, puritan. |
Agent | Noun: doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager. |
Deceiver | Imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin; (bungler); actor; (stage player). |
The Drama | Actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter; masker. pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello; pulcinello, pulcinella; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante, general utility; super, supernumerary. |
Warning | Phrase: ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort; foenum habet in cornu; caveat actor; le silence du people est la legon des rois; verbum sat sapienti; un averti en vaut deux. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Actor |
| English words defined with "actor": character actor ♦ ham actor ♦ Play actor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "actor": Act1, Act2, Act3, Actalk, Actor and Actress, Actors, Actresses, Amateur, Article redundant ♦ Blood of the Grograms ♦ camera/on ♦ Dock-side Lumper, DREW, Dying Sayings ♦ GALLOWS, Girls, guest actor, guest artist, guest star, GUY ♦ HUR ♦ Juveniles ♦ Lila ♦ Macklin ♦ Opera, Ovation, Oyster Part ♦ Scene Painters, SHAKESPEARE, standby actor ♦ TOM. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "actor": Talma. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Actor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Asturian (actor), Catalan (actor), Latin (actor, an agent or doer), Occitan (actor), Portuguese (actor, character), Provencal (actor), Romanian (actor, artiste, histrion, performer, player), Spanish (actor, performer, player, thespian), Welsh (actor). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Meet the greatest actor in the world! (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.) You will be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost-certain Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor. (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) What does an actor need with a conscience anyway! (Pinocchio; writing credit: Aurelius Battaglia; Carlo Collodi) I was an actor once, damn it! Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time! (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) I'm an actor. A writer at large. (Fathers' Day; writing credit: Francis Veber) | |
Lyrics | Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here ("Dirty Laundry"; performing artist: Don Henley) Do you wanna be an actor up in lights ("Burn"; performing artist: Jo Dee Messina) And every man's an actor, every girl is pretty ("Don't Talk To Strangers"; performing artist: Rick Springfield) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Imagen de un actor (1973) Barnyard Actor (1955) The Actor (1950) So You Want to Be an Actor (1949) A Finished Actor (1927) | |
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 | Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General John W. Handy, presents actor Chuck Norris with the "Veteran of the Year" award at the American Veteran awards show Dec. 12 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (P.; photo by Lou Hernandez).. |  | Actor John Wayne (top left, dressed as a Rear Admiral) on the ship's bridge circa August 1964, during the filming of the motion picture "In Harm's Way". A Paramount Studios camera crew is in the foreground.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Some of the attendees at an informal party given by Rear Admiral Harold B. Miller, USN(Retired), for foreign correspondents who served in the Pacific area during World War II. The gathering was held at the Toots Shor restaurant in New York City Present are (left to right): Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN; Actor Henry Fonda; Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; and Under Secretary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball. Mr. Fonda, who served as a Naval Officer during World War II, was starring in the play "Mr. Roberts" at this time.Credit: NAVY. |  | Actor Robert Stack, (right), star of television's "The Untouchables" meets Mrs. Elliot Ness, widow of the former Special Treasury Agent, and Ralph Edwards, (far left), host of NBC show "This is Your Life".Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Actor George Raft (right) with his arm around the shoulder of Bugsy Siegel.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Electric Institute of Washington. Actor, Electric Institute.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Anton Chekhov | When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams. |
Donald Sinden | An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. |
Edwin Booth | An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. |
Lao Tse | One actor cannot make a play. |
Oscar Wilde | While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She felt that the great actor had entered upon the scene, answered not a word, and went out. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The injury of actor Christopher Reeve in 1995 drew the nation's attention to the tragedy of spinal cord injury. (references) | |
Business | Recently, China has become a more internationally visible actor. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Afghanistan | In January the Taliban reportedly arrested 28 barbers in Kabul for giving customers a haircut styled after that of actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the film "Titanic." In March religious police reportedly ordered all students across the country to wear turbans in class. (references) |
Economic History | Kazakhstan | Apart from the presidency, the National Bank is the most significant institutional actor. (references) |
South Africa | Having emerged from the international isolation of the apartheid era, South Africa has become a leading international actor. (references) | |
Political Economy | OMAN | Oman operates a free market economy, but the government is, at present, the most important economic actor, both as an employer and as a purchaser of goods and services. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." In modern English the word is improperly used to signify any loose and spontaneous expression of popular homage to the hero of the hour and place. "I had an ovation!" the actor man said, But I thought it uncommonly queer, That people and critics by him had been led By the ear. The Latin lexicon makes his absurd Assertion as plain as a peg; In "ovum" we find the true root of the word. It means egg. Dudley Spink |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Quaid | I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. A leading man just happens to be another character. |
Jack Lemmon | I'm very lucky. I don't have one, and there's a very good reason. First of all, I've had so many, really wonderful parts. I mean, any actor would just love to have one of so many of those in his career. |
James Lipton | I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else. |
Jodie Foster | Yeah, they would. They would also blame things on you. Like if the other actor was late or they were mad at them, they would just yell at the kids. |
Maureen O'Hara | Believe me, I think John Wayne was a fine actor. He could not have been respected by the entire world for not just his Americanism, but for his portrayals on the screen if he wasn't a good actor. |
Robert Wagner | It's been a terrific ride, a great, great time. You know, but like every actor, you know, your career goes on levels. It goes ups and downs and ups and downs. |
Rush Limbaugh | The fact that you need some Hollywood actor to agree with you to make you think that your view is right, should make you ashamed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Actor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.93% of the time. "Actor" is used about 1,986 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.93% | 1,925 | 4,446 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.87% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.1% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.1% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,986 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "actor": best loved actor ♦ bit actor ♦ caveat actor ♦ character actor ♦ comedy actor ♦ film actor ♦ guest actor ♦ ham actor ♦ hiss an actor off the stage ♦ leading actor ♦ method actor ♦ movie actor ♦ play actor ♦ principal actor ♦ screen actor ♦ standby actor ♦ supporting actor ♦ tragic actor ♦ tragical actor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "actor": actor-dancer, actor-dancers, Actor-demosthenes, actor-director, actor-husband, actor-manager, actor-managers, actor-murderer, actor-neighbour, actor-participants, Actor-president, actor-singer, actor-speak, actor-turned-producer, actor-turned-writer, actor-wankers. | |
Ending with "actor": child-actor, co-actor, ex-actor, fellow-actor, ham-actor, play-actor, singer-turned-actor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
actor | 5,037 |
actor actress | 743 |
gay actor | 325 |
movie actor | 284 |
korean actor | 248 |
indian actor | 221 |
actor inside studio | 184 |
actor milo | 181 |
actor picture | 172 |
young actor | 157 |
male actor | 154 |
actor studio | 150 |
actor goddard trevor | 142 |
actor equity | 137 |
television actor | 137 |
child actor | 133 |
bollywood actor | 131 |
actor novello | 130 |
famous actor | 127 |
black actor | 124 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Afrikaan | akteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | aktor (cinemactor, player, utility man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ممثل في المسرح, ممثل (agent, delegate, deputy, performer, player, rep, representative, stager, star, vicar), الفاعل (doer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asturian | actor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | aktore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bemba | umwaume wafisela. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | участник (contributory, entrant, partaker, participant, participator, partner), артист (artiste, entertainer), актьор (mummer, playactor, player, thespian), действуващо лице (person, personage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | actor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cebuano | artistang lalaki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 藝人 (performing artist), "员 (Actors). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | herec (performer, player). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skuespiller. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | acteur, speler (character), komediant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aktoro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sjónleikari. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مدعی (Adversary, Attorney, Claimant, Complainant, Plaintiff, Suitor), هنرپیشه (Artist, Craftsman, Player), حامی (Advocate, Backer, Booster, Bulwark, Partisan, Patron, Protector, Shield, Sponsor), خواهان (Candidate, Complainant, Desirous, Fond, Studious, Wishful), شاکی (Complainant, Plaintiff, Squawker), بازیگر (Puppeteer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | näyttelijä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | acteur, comédien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | toanielspiler, spylder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schauspieler (actors, comedian, comedians, performer, play actor, player). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παίκτης (player), ηθοποιόσ (actress, artiste, entertainer, impersonator, performer, thespian, trouper), ηθοποιός, δραστική ουσία (active ingredient, active principle, active substance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | aktor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שחקן (artist, performer, player, thespian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | színész (performer, play actor, player, theatrical, thespian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | leikari. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | aktor, pemeran (player in a film or stage show), pelaku (agent, doer, performer, subject), pelakon (actress, doer, performer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inuktitut | takujagaqatitiji. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | aisteoir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | attore (comedian, demandant, performer, plaintiff, player, prosecuting party). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 芸人 (performer, player), "優 , 侏 (supporting post), 役者 (actress), 伶優 , 伶 , 倡 , 出"者 (entertainer, performer), 優 (affectionate, gentle, gentleness, superiority), アクセント照明 (accent lighting, actinium), 俳優 (actress, performer, player), 俳 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅつえ"しゃ (entertainer, performer), しゅ (kind, lord, master, species, supporting post, tumor, variety), しょう (artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, destroy, drink, eat, gash, general, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound), れいゆう, れい (case, cold, command, companion, cool, custom, departed soul, dictation, example, experience, expression of gratitude, ghost, illustration, instance, nought, order, parallel, precedent, soul, spirit, usage, zero), ゆう (bravery, courage, evening, gentleness, gift, help, heroism, possession, superiority, to braid, to do up, to say), アクター , やくしゃ (actress, translator), 'いに" (performer, player), はいゆう (actress, performer, player, poetry pals), はい (arrangement, ash, disposition, distribution, lung, put on, wear, worship), "ゆう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 배우 (Actors). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lombard | attor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Macedonian | glumec. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | peran. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jantagh (achiever, active, active grammatical, agent, manufacturer, performer, perpetrator, producer), aghteyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | skuespiller. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occitan | actor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | aktor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | actoray aktor. (various references) actor (character), ator (impersonator, impostor, mummer, performer, player). (various references) actor. (various references) actor (artiste, histrion, performer, player). (various references) actur. (various references) актер (knock about, playactor, play-actor, player, protagonist, trouper). (various references) tama ole ata. (various references) thaloki. (various references) saučesnik (abettor, accessary, accessory, accomplice, collaborator), glumac (playactor, player, thespian, trouper). (various references) atturi. (various references) actor (performer, player, thespian). (various references) komediman. (various references) mcheza. (various references) úm-dláli. (various references) aktör (performer), skådespelare (playactor). (various references) artista (artist). (various references) aktör (play actor). (various references) artist (r) (artist). (various references) актор (artist, artiste, histrionic, player), діяч (doer), дійова особа. (various references) tu"ng, kép (compound, dual, histrion), chèo (acting). (various references) actor, actiwr, chwaraeydd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | mimos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | actor, actoribus, cantor, cantores, cantoresque, cantoribus, cantorum, hypocrita, hypocritae, hypocritam, hypocritas, hypocritis, ludio, ludio, ludius, mimus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "actor": actorish, actors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "actor": abstractor, attractor, benefactor, bioreactor, chiropractor, coactor, cofactor, compactor, contractor, detractor, enactor, exactor, extractor, factor, hyperreactor, impactor, malefactor, multifactor, nonactor, nonfactor, nonreactor, protractor, reactor, redactor, refractor, retractor, subcontractor, tractor, transactor, varactor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "actor": abstractors, attractors, benefactors, bioreactors, calefactories, calefactory, chiropractors, coactors, cofactors, compactors, contractors, detractors, dissatisfactory, enactors, enactory, exactors, extractors, factorable, factorage, factorages, factored, factorial, factorials, factories, factoring, factorization, factorizations, factorize, factorized, factorizes, factorizing, factors, factorship, factorships, factory, factorylike, galactorrhea, galactorrheas, hyperreactors, impactors, malefactors, manufactories, manufactory, multifactorial, multifactorially, nonactors, nonfactors, nonreactors, olfactory, protractors, reactors, redactors, refractories, refractorily, refractoriness, refractorinesses, refractors, refractory, retractors, satisfactorily, satisfactoriness, satisfactorinesses, satisfactory, subcontractors, tractors, transactors, unactorish, unsatisfactorily, unsatisfactoriness, unsatisfactorinesses, unsatisfactory, varactors. (additional references) | |
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"Actor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accor, acctcom, achor, achter, acog, acor, acore, Acot, Acott, acour, acta, actem, acter, acteur, acti, acto, actorly, actort, actos, Actron, actu, actury, acwo, Afcor, Aitor, Akhter, Akoto, altor, Antro, Antur, asor, asthor, Astmoor, asto, Astrov, atco, Atgor, ator, Atora, atory, atro, attor, Attrot, Aucctu, auctor, autor, avto, avtur, bakhtir, cataora, catori, catur, ecor, Lactor, Octo, octob, ractor, Sacktor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "actor" (pronounced a"kter) |
| 4 | a" k t er | compactor, detractor, factor, reactor, refractor, tractor. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, collector, conductor, connecter, connector, constrictor, constructor, contractor, defector, detector, director, doctor, erector, Hector, inductor, injector, inspector, instructor, lector, malefactor, nectar, objector, predictor, Proctor, projector, prospector, protector, rector, sector, semiconductor, Specter, spectre, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, vector, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: taroc. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: arco, cart, coat, orca, rato, rota, taco, taro, tora, torc. | |
-2 letters: act, arc, art, car, cat, cor, cot, oar, oat, oca, ora, orc, ort, rat, roc, rot, tao, tar, tor. | |
-3 letters: ar, at, or, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: actors, aortic, cantor, captor, carrot, carton, cartop, castor, cavort, coater, contra, costar, cottar, craton, factor, oxcart, scrota, tarocs, trocar, turaco. | |
+2 letters: acrobat, acrotic, apricot, aprotic, argotic, caltrop, cantors, captors, carotid, carotin, carport, carrots, carroty, cartons, cartoon, castors, cavorts, chantor, chariot, citator, coactor, coaster, coaters, compart, contras, coranto, cordate, costard, costars, cottars, courant, cratons, creator, curator, dogcart, enactor, erotica, exactor, factors, factory, haricot, locater, locator, marcato, ocreate, ostraca, outrace, overact, oxcarts, parotic, reactor, redcoat, ricotta, scrotal, surcoat, touraco, tractor, trocars, trochal, trochar, turacos, turacou. | |
+3 letters: abductor, accentor, acceptor, accouter, accoutre, achromat, acrobats, acrodont, acrolect, acrolith, acrostic, acrotism, actorish, actuator, adductor, aeroduct, ancestor, anchoret, anoretic, anorthic, antirock, aoristic, apricots, aromatic, atrocity, atrophic, autocrat, boracite, brocatel, cabestro, cabresto, calthrop, caltrops, calutron, caretook, carotene, carotids, carotins, carports, carrotin, carryout, cartload, cartoned, cartoons, cartoony, cartouch, caryotin, castrato, category, caveator, cavorted, cavorter, ceratoid, chantors, chariots, chelator, chlorate, chordate, chromate, cilantro, citators, citatory, clitoral, coactors, coarsest, coasters, coatrack, coatroom, coauthor, cocreate, cofactor, collaret, collator, colorant, combater, cometary, comparts, congrats, contract, contrail, contrary, contrast, coparent, copastor, copatron, corantos, corelate, coronate, corotate, cortical, corybant, costards, costmary, cottager, courante, couranto, courants, crackpot, cratonic, creation, creators, cremator, cryostat, curators, decorate, democrat, dicrotal, dictator, doctoral, dogcarts, ectosarc, educator, enactors, enactory, erotical, escargot, evocator, exactors, factored, footrace, forecast, fraction, haricots, impactor, locaters, locators, loricate, mercapto, mobocrat, monocrat, motorcar, narcotic, nonactor, octarchy, octonary, offtrack, operatic, orgastic, ostracod, ostracon, outcaper, outcharm, outcrawl, outmarch, outraced, outraces, outrance, outreach, overacts, overcast, overcoat, pectoral, piscator, portance, postcard, postrace, protatic, protract, raincoat, reaction, reactors, redactor, redcoats, relocate, retroact, ricottas, romantic, sectoral, stockcar, surcoats, theocrat, thoracal, thoraces, thoracic, tornadic, touracos, tovarich, trachoma, traction, tractors, traprock, trifocal, trochaic, trochars, trochlea, tropical, turacous, turbocar, turncoat, varactor, victoria, voracity, vortical. | |
+4 letters: abdicator, abductors, accentors, acceptors, accordant, accouters, accoutred, accoutres, accretion, achromats, acrobatic, acrodonts, acrolects, acroliths, acropetal, acrostics, acrotisms, activator, actuators, adductors, advocator, aerobatic, aeroducts, ahistoric, aleatoric, allocator, amaurotic, ametropic, amoristic, ancestors, anchorets, anchorite, anorectic, anoretics, antechoir, anthropic, archivolt, aromatics, artichoke, ascorbate, astrocyte, athrocyte, atrocious, attractor, auctorial, autocracy, autocrats, autocross, backcourt, backdropt, bacteroid, baronetcy, boracites, bracteole, broadcast, brocatels, cabestros, cabrestos, cabriolet, cafetoria, calthrops, calutrons, cantorial, capacitor, captopril, carbonate, carnation, carnotite, carotenes, carrotier, carrotins, carrottop, carryouts, cartloads, cartoning, cartooned, cartopper, cartouche, caryotins, castoreum, castrator, castratos, cataloger, cataphora, catchword, categoric, catoptric, caveators, cavorters, cavorting, charioted, charlotte, chelators, chlorates, chordates, chromates, chromatic, chromatid, chromatin, cilantros, cloistral, coadjutor, coastward, coatdress, coatracks, coatrooms, coauthors, cocreated, cocreates, cocreator, cocurator, coeternal, cofactors, cofeature, collarets, collators, colorants, colorfast, colostral, combaters, compacter, compactor, comparted, concordat, consortia, constrain, container, contracts, contrails, contralto, contrasts, contrasty, cooperate, coparents, copartner, copastors, copatrons, corantoes, cordately, corelated, corelates, cormorant, cornstalk, corollate, coronated, coronates, corotated, corotates, corporate, corposant, correlate, corrugate, coruscant, coruscate, corybants, costarred, cottagers, courantes, courantos, courtesan, courtyard, covariant, crackpots, crapshoot, crayonist, creations, cremation, cremators, crematory, crenation, creodonta, croakiest, croissant, crosstalk, croustade, cryostats, cryptogam, customary, cutthroat, cystocarp, decorated, decorates, decorator, dedicator, democrats, detractor, dichromat, dictators, doctorate, doctrinal, ectosarcs, educators, electoral, escalator, escargots, esoterica, eucaryote, evocators, excavator, excoriate, execrator, extractor, factorage, factorial, factories, factoring, factorize, flowchart, footraces, forcemeat, forecasts, fornicate, fortalice, fractions, fractious, furcation, greatcoat, haircloth, hectogram, iceboater, impactors, incubator, indicator, jockstrap, keratotic, latecomer, loricates, macerator, macrocyte, manticore, microwatt, mobocrats, monocrats, mortician, motorcade, motorcars, mucronate, narcotics, narcotize, nectarous, nocturnal, nonactors, nonfactor, nucleator, obcordate, obscurant, ochlocrat, octahedra, octameter, ocularist, olfactory, operatics, oratrices, orchestra, orgiastic, ostracise, ostracism, ostracize, ostracode, ostracods, outcapers, outcharge, outcharms, outcrawls, outercoat, outpreach, outracing, outrances, overacted, overcasts, overcoats, overmatch, overreact, pantropic, patchwork, patriotic, pectorals, peculator, percolate, pictogram, pictorial, piscators, piscatory, placatory, plutocrat, podiatric, portances, portapack, portulaca, postcards, postcrash, preatomic, precatory, precoital, proactive, procreant, procreate, prolactin, prostatic, protracts, psoriatic, raconteur, raincoats, reactions, recontact, rectorate, rectorial, redaction, redactors, refractor, relocated, relocatee, relocates, retractor, retroacts, retropack, rockshaft, romantics, roughcast, sarcomata, sclerotia, sectorial, shortcake, spaceport, spectator, stockcars, stockyard, stomacher, suctorial, suctorian, sugarcoat, tackboard, theocracy, theocrats, thornback, throwback, timocracy, tolerance, touchmark, tracheole, trachomas, tractions, transonic, traprocks, triatomic, trifocals, trochaics, trochleae, trochlear, trochleas, truckload, turbocars, turncoats, ultracold, ultracool, undercoat, urceolate, varactors, vectorial, victorias, watch | |
