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Role   /roʊl/   Listen
Role

noun
1.
The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.  Synonyms: function, office, part.  "The government must do its part" , "Play its role"
2.
An actor's portrayal of someone in a play.  Synonyms: character, part, persona, theatrical role.
3.
What something is used for.  Synonyms: function, purpose, use.  "Ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"
4.
Normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting.



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"Role" Quotes from Famous Books



... And to the Riviera I still felt strongly impelled to go, though I had no longer the Contessa for an excuse. She had been engaged, in my little drama, for the part of "leading juvenile," with the privilege of understudying the heroine. But she had not shown an aptitude for either role, and having stepped down to that of first walking lady, she had minced off my stage altogether. Now the cast was filled up without her, though strangely filled, since after the first act there had been no leading lady at all. Nevertheless, having arranged a scene at Monte Carlo I ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... constantly intensify the political conflict, and since Jaures is a perpetual compromiser, put him in the minority in every contested vote within the party. By attacking the capitalists blindly and on all occasions they have created the necessity of a conciliator—the role that Jaures ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling
... Mr. Belasco has ever infused so much imaginative ingenuity into the structure and picture of a play. Even in the reading, its quaint charm is instantly revealed. We quite agree with Winter in saying that the effectiveness of the role of PETER lies in its simplicity. This was the triumph of Warfield's interpretation. It may have been difficult to attain the desired effects, but once reached, technical skill did the rest. It will be noted on the program that credit is given for an ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm • David Belasco
... would forever remain unpunished. Real, instinctively scenting d'Ache in the business, remembered Captain Manginot who at the time of Georges Cadoudal's plot, had succeeded in tracing the stages of the conspirators between Biville and Paris, and to whom they owed the discovery of the role played by d'Ache in ...
— The House of the Combrays • G. le Notre
... ought to do something," she admitted, being in an agreeable and loquacious humor. This was not the first of these discussions, but as they usually developed Anthony in the role of protagonist, she had come ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald


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