See playactor on Wiktionary
{ "forms": [ { "form": "playactors", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "playactor (plural playactors)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "play-actor" } ], "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1876, Charles John Plumptre, King's college lectures on elocution, page 19:", "text": "It is the oldest of saws that every great orator, whether secular or ecclesiastical, has in him many of the attributes of a playactor, and no one can have listened to the most successful of American preachers — Mr. Henry Ward Beecher — whose name has been so long before the public in connection with a painful and humiliating investigation — without seeing how closely his performances on the platform of Plymouth Church draw their inspiration from the stage.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:", "text": "\"It's the playactor!\" cried he, slashing at my cudgel.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1963, Sukumar Sen Halāyudhamiśra, Sekasubhodaya of Halāyudha Miśra: Translated Into English and Edited with Notes and Introduction, page xv:", "text": "He is Gāṅgo the playactor (\"nata\"). The stories connected with him, his son Jaya, also a playactor (\"Jayanata), and the latter's wife Vidyutprabhā are probably baseless pleasantry.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of play-actor." ], "id": "en-playactor-en-noun-LFc-ka0h", "links": [ [ "play-actor", "play-actor#English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "playactor" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "playactors", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "playactor (plural playactors)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "play-actor" } ], "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1876, Charles John Plumptre, King's college lectures on elocution, page 19:", "text": "It is the oldest of saws that every great orator, whether secular or ecclesiastical, has in him many of the attributes of a playactor, and no one can have listened to the most successful of American preachers — Mr. Henry Ward Beecher — whose name has been so long before the public in connection with a painful and humiliating investigation — without seeing how closely his performances on the platform of Plymouth Church draw their inspiration from the stage.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:", "text": "\"It's the playactor!\" cried he, slashing at my cudgel.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1963, Sukumar Sen Halāyudhamiśra, Sekasubhodaya of Halāyudha Miśra: Translated Into English and Edited with Notes and Introduction, page xv:", "text": "He is Gāṅgo the playactor (\"nata\"). The stories connected with him, his son Jaya, also a playactor (\"Jayanata), and the latter's wife Vidyutprabhā are probably baseless pleasantry.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of play-actor." ], "links": [ [ "play-actor", "play-actor#English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "playactor" }
Download raw JSONL data for playactor meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (ee63ee9 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.