"roleplay" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈrəʊl.pleɪ/ [UK], /ˈrol.pleɪ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-roleplay.wav [UK] Forms: roleplays [plural]
Etymology: From role (“expected behavior”) + play (“perform, act”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|role||expected behavior}} role (“expected behavior”), {{m|en|play||perform, act}} play (“perform, act”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} roleplay (countable and uncountable, plural roleplays)
  1. The act or practice of roleplaying; an instance of roleplaying. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychology
    Sense id: en-roleplay-en-noun-prHJsTw8 Disambiguation of Psychology: 25 30 34 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 44 11 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 33 34 4
  2. The practice of roleplaying. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychology
    Sense id: en-roleplay-en-noun-v~ZtQ7aY Disambiguation of Psychology: 25 30 34 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 44 11 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 33 34 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: rôleplay, role-play, RP Related terms: RPG, LARP, roleplayer

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈrəʊl.pleɪ/ [UK], /ˈrol.pleɪ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-roleplay.wav [UK] Forms: roleplays [present, singular, third-person], roleplaying [participle, present], roleplayed [participle, past], roleplayed [past]
Etymology: From role (“expected behavior”) + play (“perform, act”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|role||expected behavior}} role (“expected behavior”), {{m|en|play||perform, act}} play (“perform, act”) Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Psychology
    Sense id: en-roleplay-en-verb-wM-8l6-Z Disambiguation of Psychology: 25 30 34 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 44 11 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 33 34 4
  2. (transitive) To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Psychology Translations (To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.): rôler (French), rolear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-roleplay-en-verb-r8I7jgLU Disambiguation of Psychology: 25 30 34 11 Disambiguation of 'To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.': 13 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: rôleplay, role-play

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.