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Definition: Entertainer |
EntertainerNoun1. A person who tries to please or amuse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "entertainer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | A term for persons who entertain and amuse audiences by means of an act or skit, dance, reading, feat of skill, songs, or comedy act. Classifications are made according to type of entertainment provided. (references) |
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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
History
In Greek mythology, Actor was the father of Menoetius and Astyoche. He was king of Opus in Locris.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.
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.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
Actresses in Male Roles
Women actors sometimes play the roles of prepubescent boys, because in some regards a woman has a closer resemblance to a boy than a man. An adult playing a child occurs more in theater than in film. The role of Peter Pan, for example, is traditionally played by a woman. The tradition of the principal boy in pantomime may be compared.Mary Pickford played the part of Little Lord Fauntleroy in the first film version of the book. Linda Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in The Year of Living Dangerously, in which she played the part of a man.
Having an actor play the opposite sex for comic effect is also a long standing tradition in comic theatre and film. Most of Shakespeare's comedies include instances of cross dressing, and both Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams appeared in hit comedy films where they were required to play most scenes dressed as women.
Acting awards
See also: stunt work, actors' hobbies and other careers
- Oscar Academy Awards (movies)
- Golden Globe Awards (movies)
- Emmy Awards (television)
- Tony Awards (theater)
- European Theatre Awards (theater)
- Laurence Olivier Awards (theater)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Actor."
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You may be looking for the movie, The Entertainer. Below is the profession of an entertainer An entertainer is someone who is hired to entertain people. This can come in a wide range of forms, from a musician, to an actor, to a magicianian.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Entertainer."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Entertainer, showman, showgirl; dancer, tap dancer, song-and-dance man; vaudeville act; singer; musician. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Entertainer |
| English words defined with "entertainer": attraction, attractor ♦ bombshell ♦ draw, drawing card ♦ monologist ♦ performer, performing artist, pleaser. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "entertainer": DUTCH FEAST. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Entertainer" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (entertainer), Swedish (entertainer). |
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Screenplays | Ladies and gentlemen, let me lay on you a so-so entertainer, not much of a humanitarian, and this cat was never nobody's friend (All That Jazz; writing credit: Robert Alan Aurthur; Bob Fosse) | |
Lyrics | Musical entertainer the world had ever seen (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Entertainer (1960) Cedric the Entertainer Presents (2002) The Entertainer (1976) | |
Song Titles | The Entertainer - Instrumental (performing artist: Marvin Hamlisch) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Arthur Godfrey, popular entertainer and smoker who later died of lung cancer, touts Chesterfield cigarettes as safe and "best for me." Tobacco, smoking. Credit: CDC. |  | Officer of the Deck, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Howard W. Milke, USNR, welcomes entertainer Pascacio Alinangohan as he boards the ship in 1945. Mr. Alinangohan, a former guerrilla Captain whose stage name is "Professor Paz", led a troupe of dancers, singers and guitarists in a show for the carrier's crew. The plaque behind them features a quotation from the speech given by Philippine President Manuel Quezon at USS Bataan's launching ceremonies on 1 August 1943. For more extensive information, see Photo # NH 47859 (extended caption). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Actresses Millette Alexander and Louise King, and nightclub entertainer Ted Lewis, stand outside a giant mailbox stamp selling booth in Times Square, New York City, while Assistant Postmaster Aquiline F. Weierich dispenses stamps from inside booth] / Wor. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Greta Garbo in the role of Zara, a cafe entertainer in Budapest, in the 1932 movie "As you desire me." She stands with her arm on the shoulder of Erich von Stroheim, who plays Carl Salter, a novelist. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Journalist Lee Mortimer (left) looks down at entertainer, Frank Sinatra (center), talking with reporter during trial for battery against Mortimer; three unidentified men to right, Beverly Hills, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Manager of the Alamo bar, and Mildred Irwin, entertainer. North Platte, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Entertainer in saloon at North Platte, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mildred Irwin, entertainer in saloon at North Platte, Nebraska. She entertained for twenty years in Omaha before coming to North Platte. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Entertainer at the World's Fair in Tunbridge, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Laurant magician, illusionist, entertainer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Circus Jump" by Gary McCord Commentary: "Circus entertainer, jumping backwards off a 20ft pole." |
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| "Entertainer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.53% of the time. "Entertainer" is used about 139 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) | 93.53% | 130 | 28,019 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 4.32% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.16% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 139 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "entertainer": traveling entertainer. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "entertainer": entertainer-lover. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "entertainer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zot shtëpie (host, householder), mikpritës (homely, hospitable, host). (various references) | |
Arabic | المضيف (adder). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | забавен човек, артист (actor, artiste), певец (bard, chorister, melodist, minstrel, singer, songster, vocalist), домакин (host, manciple, sircar). (various references) | |
Chinese | 艺人. (various references) | |
Czech | estrádní umìlec, konferenciér (compere, emcee, host, presenter, question master), kabaretní umìlec. (various references) | |
Danish | markedsgøgler (fairground entertainer). (various references) | |
Dutch | kermisexploitant (fairground entertainer), foorkramer (fairground entertainer). (various references) | |
Finnish | viihdyttäjä. (various references) | |
French | chanteur, causeur, artiste de télévision, artiste. (various references) | |
German | unterhalter (amuser, breadwinner, conversationalist, converser, conversers), Unterhaltungskünstler. (various references) | |
Greek | καλλιτέχνησ (artist), καλλιτέχνης (artist, performer), ηθοποιόσ (actor, actress, artiste, impersonator, performer, thespian, trouper), αυτός που ψυχαγωγεί, διασκεδάζων (frolicker), διασκεδαστής. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מופיען (performer), בדרן (artist). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vendéglátó (feaster, hospitable, host), szórakoztató (amusing, cabaret, diverting, entertaining, funny, rich), házigazda (amphitryon, host, landlord, master of the house). (various references) | |
Italian | showman, intrattenitore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 伽 (attendant, attending, nurse, nursing), 出演者 (actor, performer), エンジン発動機 (angel, angel baby, angelfish, embassy, emblem, emboss, embroidery, empathy, emperor, emphasis, emphasize, empire, Empire Day, Empire State Building, empress, emptiomania, empty, empty nest, empty nest syndrome, end, end curler, end line, end user, -endian, ending, endive, endless, endless tape, endorphin, engine, engine stop, engineering plastics, enhancement, entasis, enter, enterprise, entertainment, entitled, entity, entrance, entropy, entry, envelope, hit-and-run, two-base entitlement). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅつえんしゃ (actor, performer), エンターテイナー , とぎ (attendant, attending, grinding, Metropolitan assemblyman, nurse, nursing, polish, sharpening). (various references) | |
Korean | 연예인 (Performer). (various references) | |
Manx | olteyr (host), oastagh (hospitable), cuirreyder (host). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | entertaineray.(various references) | |
Romanian | persoanã amuzantã, gazdã (host, hostess, landlady, landlord, owner), comedian (comedian, comedy actor), care distreazã, artist de estradã, animatoare (clip-girl, hostess), actor comic (comedian). (various references) | |
Russian | эстрадный артист (artiste), конферансье (compere, master of ceremonies). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabavljač (showman). (various references) | |
Spanish | animador (animator, cheer, cheerleader, compere, fugleman). (various references) | |
Swedish | entertainer, underhållare. (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ให้ความบันเทิง. (various references) | |
Turkish | eğlendiren kimse, gösterici (demonstrator, protester, rioter), ağırlayan kimse. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | господар (employer, host, master, proprietor), естрадний артист. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tiếp đãi. (various references) | |
Welsh | difyrrwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | susceptor, susceptoria. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | menestrel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "entertainer": entertainers. (additional references) | |
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"Entertainer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entrainer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "entertainer" (pronounced e'ntertā"ner or e'nertā"ner) |
| 4 | -t ā" n er | container, retainer. |
| 3 | -ā" n er | campaigner, complainer, drainer, gainer, nonplanar, plainer, planar, planer, saner, trainer. |
| 4 | -t ā" n er | container, retainer. |
| 3 | -ā" n er | campaigner, complainer, drainer, gainer, nonplanar, plainer, planar, planer, saner, trainer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-n-n-r-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: intenerate. | |
-2 letters: entertain, entrainer, reentrant, reiterate. | |
-3 letters: inerrant, internee, intranet, rattener, renitent, retainer, retinene, retirant. | |
-4 letters: arenite, ariette, entente, enterer, entrain, entrant, entreat, interne, intrant, intreat, iterant, iterate, nattier, nettier, nitrate, ratteen, rattier, reenter, reinter, rentier, retinae, retiree, retrain, retreat, tearier, teenier, tentier, ternate, terrain, terrane, terreen, terrene, terrine, tertian, trainee, trainer, treater. | |
-5 letters: aerier. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-n-n-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: entertainers. | |
+3 letters: interferential, interpenetrate, representation, tercentenaries. | |
+4 letters: intergeneration, interpenetrated, interpenetrates, interpermeating, overentertained, redetermination, representations. | |
+5 letters: antiracketeering, intergenerations, interpenetrating, interpenetration, interrelatedness, predetermination, redeterminations, reinterpretation, representational, unrepresentative. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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