player.
One that plays.
Meaning & usage
One that plays. One who plays any game or sport.
He is a player for the Australian team.
One that plays. An actor in a dramatic play.
One that plays. One who plays on a musical instrument.
One that plays. A gamer; a person of video games or similar.
He is an avid Minecraft player.
One that plays. A gambler.
One that plays. A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
One that plays. An electronic device that plays audio or video media.
One that plays. A software application that plays audio or video media, such as a media player.
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.
a major player in the direct banking sector
A participant; one involved in something. One who participates in a particular type of sexual play.
A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *plegō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *plegōn Old English plegian Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Old English pleġere Middle English pleyer English player From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.
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