Player Meaning
/ˈpleɪ.ə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne that plays.
nounOne that plays., One who plays any game or sport.
Sentence Examples
I want an MP3 player!
You are a tennis player.
He spoke of his childhood fantasies about becoming a famous football player.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The star basketball ____ dribbled the ball down the court and scored two points.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The chess ____ studied his opponent's moves carefully before deciding on his next strategy.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, merely Players"
— c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], page 194, column 1:
"The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game."
— 2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:
"But up to this time the application of the player mechanism had been confined to reed instruments, the piano manufacturers having successfully resisted the introduction of the player mechanism into the piano; but, in the meantime, the manufacturers of players had grown strong and the manufacturers were beginning to properly interpret the handwriting on the wall"
— 1915, John McTammany, The Technical History of the Player:
"A Technical Treatise on Piano Player Mechanism" contains detailed description of the various types of interior and exterior players, embracing manual, pneumatic, automatic, mechanical and electric"
— 1909, William Braid White, Regulation and Repair of Piano and Player Mechanism, ..., page 179:
"Electric players used either a four-lobe rotary pump belt-driven by an electric motor or a self-contained electric motor and ..."
— 1970, Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume, Player piano: the history of the mechanical piano and how to repair it:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The star basketball ____ dribbled the ball down the court and scored two points.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The chess ____ studied his opponent's moves carefully before deciding on his next strategy.