See role in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"forms": [
{
"form": "role",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "roles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "In the past twenty-five years the role of women on farms had changed dramatically."
},
{
"text": "Music plays an important role in the movie."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The role of a person or thing is the job that they do in a certain situation."
],
"id": "simple-role-en-noun-HtQS1S~s",
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "Tamara Karsavina was the first to dance the role of the Firebird."
},
{
"text": "I was cast in the role of the crazy old witch in the school play."
}
],
"glosses": [
"role is another word for a part in a theatrical work such as a play or a ballet"
],
"id": "simple-role-en-noun-nEXmelGV"
}
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"enpr": "rōl"
},
{
"ipa": "/rəʊl/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/rol/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-role.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"homophones": [
"roll"
]
}
],
"word": "role"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "role",
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"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "roles",
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}
],
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"name": "noun"
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],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [
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"examples": [
{
"text": "In the past twenty-five years the role of women on farms had changed dramatically."
},
{
"text": "Music plays an important role in the movie."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The role of a person or thing is the job that they do in a certain situation."
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "Tamara Karsavina was the first to dance the role of the Firebird."
},
{
"text": "I was cast in the role of the crazy old witch in the school play."
}
],
"glosses": [
"role is another word for a part in a theatrical work such as a play or a ballet"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "rōl"
},
{
"ipa": "/rəʊl/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/rol/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-role.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"homophones": [
"roll"
]
}
],
"word": "role"
}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-16 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (b0b7a66 and 3185d56). 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.
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