player
See also: Player
player - English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA: /ˈpleɪɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpleɪə(ɹ)/
- Hyphenation: play‧er
Noun
player (plural players)
- One that plays
- One who plays any game or sport.
- Synonym: (UK, dialectal) laker
- (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
- (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
- (gaming, video games) A gamer; a player of video games or similar.
- (gambling) A gambler.
- (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
- (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media.
- Is your CD player broken, or is this one disc damaged?
- (computing) A software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as a media player.
- One who plays any game or sport.
- One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
- A participant; one involved in something.
- He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
- (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
- Synonyms: see libertine
Derived terms
- basketball player
- bit player
- bugle-player
- CD player
- cello player
- flute-player
- football player
- guitar-player
- harp-player
- hockey player
- multiplayer, multi-player
- oboe-player
- piano player
- player hater
- player piano
- player-manager
- playerhood
- record player
- rugby player
- soccer player
- string player
- tennis player
- trombone-player
- trumpet-player
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