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noun

Actor n.

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. "After a well graced actor leaves the stage."

(Law)

(a)

An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.

(b)

One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

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Etymology of 'Actor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Actor" Quotes from Famous Books

... course marry a—well, not a President of the United States, perhaps—but an admiral possibly, or a millionaire, or the owner of a fleet of steamships, or something like that. The idea that she should even think of marrying a play-actor was unbelievable. The captain had never attended the performance of an opera; what was more, he never expected to attend one. He had been given to understand that a "parcel of play-actin' men and women hollered and screamed ...

— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... Augustine says (De Trin. xiii, 3): "If that actor had said: 'You all wish to be happy; you do not wish to be unhappy,' he would have said that which none would have failed to acknowledge in his will." Therefore ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas

... the girl's eyes, and, in fact, in the eyes of all who had heard his story, even Phil, the stranger had taken on an added importance, the importance of the chief actor in ...

— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield

... words for all the world like a young provincial actor in the role of leading lover. I agreed to his proposition, and before we had reached Lgov I had succeeded in learning his whole history. He was a freed house-serf; in his tender youth had been taught music, then served ...

— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev

... great-nephew of Shakespeare, a favourite actor. He is credited with being Nell Gwyn's first lover (or Charles I., as the wits put it), and with having brought her on the stage. He died of stone, and was buried at Stanmore Magna, Middlesex, where ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

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