Meaning of play-actor | Babel Free

Definitions

An actor who performs on stage, especially one who is part of an acting troupe.

Equivalents

Examples

“Suppose Bacon wrote the plays, and that there is no cipher in them ; suppose he threw them from him as " trifles " ; used them to eke out his small income by dividing the profits with the play-actor, Shakespeare, and thought no more about them, and cared nothing for them; and suppose they were gathered up from the actor's hands, with all their imperfections on their heads, and so jumbled together and printed by Heminge and Condell.”

“'Sadly, the play-actor is running and hiding like a rabbit,' the man went on.”

“Mr. Greyle, mister, says that he has no recollection whatever of meeting this play-actor person in America—he may have done and he mayn't.”

CEFR level