"playactor" meaning in English

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      "form": "playactors",
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      "expansion": "playactor (plural playactors)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "play-actor"
        }
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      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
          "text": "\"It's the playactor!\" cried he, slashing at my cudgel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of play-actor."
      ],
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  "word": "playactor"
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    {
      "form": "playactors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
          "text": "\"It's the playactor!\" cried he, slashing at my cudgel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of play-actor."
      ],
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