actress

Definitions

1. A female who performs on the stage or in films. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. Actor (“person that acts” or “person that feigns”).
3. A female who performs on the stage or in films.
4. A woman who is an actor. See Usage Note at -ess.
5. A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense)
6. Leng=gl.
7. A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).
   archaic
8. a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, etc., esp. professionally.
9. Leng=pap.
10. A theatrical performer:actor, player, thespian.
11. (Theatre) a woman who acts in a play, film, broadcast, etc
12. informal a woman who puts on a false manner in order to deceive others
    informal
13. n (lit, fig) → Schauspielerin f
    n (lit, fig)

Equivalents

Examples

“A while ago somewhere I don't know⟳ when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love⟳ with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand⟳”

“"I'm an actress -- actor, as we have⟳ to say⟳ these days."”

“Court documents appear⟳ to show⟳ that Ian Edmondson, a senior News of the World journalist, had authorised Mr Mulcaire to hack phones belonging to Sienna Miller, an actress.”

“My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.”

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