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Prompter

noun

Someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech. Synonym: theater prompter.

A device that displays words for people to read. Synonym: autocue.

Prompt

adjective

(compar. prompter; superl. promptest)

According to schedule or without delay; on time.

Ready and willing or quick to act.

Performed with little or no delay. Synonyms: immediate, quick, straightaway. "A prompt reply" , "Was quick to respond" , "A straightaway denial"

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"Prompter" Quotes from Famous Books

... family party—the unfailing result of a stable stock company with the parts always cast in the same mould. And it was almost an impromptu performance. Pinchas, from his proximity to the stage, could hear every word from the prompter's box, which rose in the centre of the footlights. The Yiddish prompter did not wait till the players 'dried up'; it was his role to read the whole play ahead of them. 'Then you are the woman who murdered my mother,' ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... from Spain is the star of the present season. At rehearsal he is a fallen star, being extremely old and shaky, but at night his make-up is wonderful, and he draws large audiences, who witness his great scene of a detected thief in convulsions. The prompter is seated under a cupola in the centre of the stage near the footlights, as at the opera, and his duties are arduous. It devolves upon him to read over the part of each performer in a suppressed tone, and to direct their manner ...

— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman

... were not confused. How could he be at once stationed at my shoulder and shut up in my closet? How could he stand near me and yet be invisible? But if Carwin's were the thrilling voice and the fiery image which I had heard and seen, then was he the prompter of my brother, and the ...

— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne

... who sat waiting his turn. But the effect of the recitation of "Palestine" was entirely unrivalled on that as on any other occasion. Reginald Heber,—a graceful, fine-looking, rather pale young man of twenty,—with his younger brother Thomas beside him as prompter, stood in the rostrum, and commenced in a clear, beautiful, melancholy voice, with perfect declamation, which overcame all the stir and tumultuous restlessness of the audience by the power and ...

— Pioneers and Founders - or, Recent Workers in the Mission field • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... sinking his voice from the indignant clearness with which it had addressed the prompter, to a ...

— More William • Richmal Crompton

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