"title role" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: title roles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} title role (plural title roles)
  1. The part of a movie, play, or television show, from which the work's title is taken. Categories (topical): Fictional characters, Narratology, Stock characters Related terms: title character
    Sense id: en-title_role-en-noun-vAGpquF6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for title role meaning in English (1.4kB)

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