See stager in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nEnglish stage\nProto-Indo-European *-eh₂\nProto-Indo-European *-os?\nProto-Indo-European *-o-\nProto-Indo-European *-so-\nProto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-\nProto-Indo-European *-yós\nProto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós\nProto-Italic *-āsijos\nProto-Italic *-āsios\nLatin -āriusnom.\nLatin -āriusbor.\nProto-Germanic *-ārijaz\nProto-West Germanic *-ārī\nOld English -ere\nMiddle English -ere\n▲\nLatin -ārius\nOld French -ierbor.\nMiddle English -er\nEnglish -er\nEnglish stager\nFrom stage + -er.",
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"form": "stagers",
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"glosses": [
"An actor on the stage."
],
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"actor",
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"stage",
"stage"
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"ref": "1994, Richard Beadle, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, page 271:",
"text": "Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints[…]",
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"glosses": [
"One who stages a theatrical performance."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A horse used in drawing a stagecoach."
],
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