Definitions for PLAYER
ˈpleɪ ərplay·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. player, participantnoun

   a person who participates in or is skilled at some game

2. musician, instrumentalist, playernoun

   someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)

3. actor, histrion, player, thespian, role playernoun

   a theatrical performer

4. playernoun

   a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously

5. playernoun

   an important participant (as in a business deal)

   "he was a major player in setting up the corporation"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. playernoun

   One who plays any game or sport.

2. playernoun

   An actor in a dramatic play.

3. playernoun

   One who plays on a musical instrument.

4. playernoun

   One who is playful, given to games and other amusement; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.

5. playernoun

   A gamer; a gamester.

6. playernoun

   A gambler.

7. playernoun

   A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.

8. playernoun

   An electronic device that plays various audio and video media, such as CD player.

9. playernoun

   A software application that plays various audio and video formats.

10. playeradjective

    of something that "plays" itself, like certain automated devices

11. Etymology: From playere, from plegere, equivalent to.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Playernoun

   Etymology: from play.

   1. One who plays.2. An idler; a lazy person.

   You’re pictures out of doors,
   Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,
   Players in your housewifery. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   3. Actor of dramatick scenes.

   Like players plac’d to fill a filthy stage,
   Where change of thoughts one fool to other shews,
   And all but jests, serve only sorrow’s rage. Philip Sidney.

   Certain pantomimi will represent the voices of players of interludes so to life, as you would think they were those players themselves. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   A player, if left of his auditory and their applause, would straight be out of heart. Francis Bacon.

   Thine be the laurel then, support the stage;
   Which so declines, that shortly we may see
   Players and plays reduc’d to second infancy. Dryden.

   His muse had starv’d, had not a piece unread,
   And by a player bought, supply’d her bread. Dryden.

   4. A mimick.

   Thus said the player god; and adding art
   Of voice and gesture, so perform’d his part,
   She thought, so like her love the shade appears,
   That Ceyx spake the words. Dryden.

   5. One who touches a musical instrument.

   Command thy servants to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on the harp. 1 Samuel xvi. 16.

   6. A gamester.7. One who acts in play in any certain manner.

   The snake bit him fast by the tongue, which therewith began so to rankle and swell, that, by the time he had knocked this foul player on the head, his mouth was scarce able to contain it. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. player

   A player generally refers to a person who participates in a game or sport, interacting according to certain rules to achieve a specific goal or outcome. It can also refer to a person who manipulates or orchestrates various elements to achieve a desired result. Furthermore, in a technological context, a player can refer to a device or application that plays media, such as a music player or video player. The term also has multiple contextual meanings in language, society, and culture.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Playernoun

   one who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler

2. Playernoun

   one who plays any game

3. Playernoun

   a dramatic actor

4. Playernoun

   one who plays on an instrument of music

5. Playernoun

   a gamester; a gambler

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Player

   Player is an American rock band that made their mark during the late 1970s. The group scored a few US Hot 100 hits, three of which went into the Top 40; two of those single releases went Top 10, including the No. 1 hit "Baby Come Back", written by group members Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. playernoun

   Someone who is "true to the hood",(Keith Holley aKa "Keilo") ie. someone who never sold out. To Chuck, Flava and Griff... You're true players -- Ice-T (M.V.P.'s).

2. playernoun

   A kind of chicken, so a player is good at picking up rice.

3. playernoun

   "Players" is an adult magazine.

4. playernoun

   See pimp.

5. playernoun

   A form of con artist, whose "game" involves confidence schemes, usually perpetrated against the opposite sex, aimed at procuring sexual favor, material items, money or all three -- usually from multiple victims simultaneously.

6. playernoun

   Person from the game, loyal to the game.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. player

   A person who plays a sport.

   The players of football, hurling, australian rules football and other sports love to converse and share knowledge.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020  

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1. player

   Song lyrics by player -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by player on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PLAYER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Player is ranked #9033 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Player surname appeared 3,617 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Player.
   
   59.7% or 2,161 total occurrences were White.
   35.4% or 1,281 total occurrences were Black.
   2.1% or 76 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2% or 73 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.4% or 16 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.2% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Performer
   • Person

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PLAYER' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1832

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PLAYER' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2425

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PLAYER' in Nouns Frequency: #305

Anagrams for PLAYER »

1. parley

2. pearly

3. replay

How to pronounce PLAYER?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say PLAYER in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PLAYER in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PLAYER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of PLAYER in a Sentence

1. Roland Garros champion Hana Mandlikova:

   I definitely think that, after Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova, Marketa is now the one to look for. She's already an awesome player and she definitely has it in her to win a Grand Slam.

2. Mike Friday:

   The big thing in America is, if you can't be an NFL player, an NBA play or a baseball player, (but) you can be an Olympian, then that's the next best thing, the Olympics captures the imagination of the sporting public in America. If rugby can position itself and we can do well as an Olympic sport, then all of a sudden it will hit the eyes of so many more Americans.

3. Bank Vontobel:

   Swatch Group is the only (Swiss) player which also has a strong position in low to mid-end segments, swatch Group has a market share of 60-65 percent in the low to mid-end (accounting for 25 percent of sales).

4. Grant Caraway:

   If they want that solid receiver one, they got to pay for it, and I think that the guys who negotiate the contracts, the agent and all that stuff, they probably know that and they probably come at the organization with that kind of like :' OK, listen, if you want this caliber of a player on the team, you've seen what he's been able to do for other teams' -- like Davante Adams in Green Bay.

5. Will Healy:

   I’ve seen tremendous growth in Vic, i think now he’s a great player and an outstanding leader. I’m very proud of him.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=PLAYER
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Player
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=PLAYER
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/PLAYER
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=PLAYER
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html