Usually means: Performer portraying characters in productions.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. actor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. actor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. actor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. actor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. actor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Actor, actor, actor: Wordnik
  7. actor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. actor: Wiktionary
  9. actor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. actor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. actor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Actor, actor: Dictionary.com
  13. actor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. actor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Actor (UML), Actor (album), Actor (disambiguation), Actor (law), Actor (mythology), Actor (policy debate), Actor (programming language), Actor, The Actor (Flight of the Conchords), The Actor (Michael Learns to Rock song), The Actor (The Moody Blues song), The Actor (painting), The Actor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Actor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. actor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. actor: Rhymezone
  19. actor, actor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. actor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. actor: Free Dictionary
  22. actor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. actor: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. actor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. actor: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Actor (law), actor: Legal dictionary
  3. Actor (law): Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Actor, actor: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ACTOR: CCI Computer
  3. ACTOR: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ACTOR: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. actor: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. actor: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See actorish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
noun:  (obsolete) Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian.
noun:  Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
noun:  A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
noun:  (obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
noun:  (grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
noun:  (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

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