enactor

noun

Definition of enactornext
as in performer

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  1. actor
  2. actress
  3. player
  4. thespian
  5. trouper
  6. mummer
Noun
  • Her co-star and director Justin Baldoni, the outspoken actor highly regarded as one of the industry's fiercest defenders of women.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Indeed, the actor was born in 1994 and is part of a generation called the ceasefire babies.
    Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of actor
Noun
  • The support came after The New York Times detailed Baldoni’s efforts to discredit the actress, who was also a producer on the movie.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The case supervisors and crime bosses are female, too—played by such veteran character actresses as Lancashire, Tracey Ullman, and a gnomic Kathryn Hunter.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of actress
Noun
  • At times this season, defending Towns with smaller players has invited the Knicks into playing slower.
    James L. Edwards III, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The show’s turn to militarized warfare is more jarring than most TV and film gunfights, perhaps because of how the games deliberately infantilize players.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of player
Noun
  • The thespians’ astrology debate began not even five minutes into the 45-minute-long interview.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
  • As great a tale as that is, it's made even better by the casting of actual thespians from Sing Sing.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of thespian
Noun
  • The cost and the inspiration Carol, it should be noted, is a trouper.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Even though his health was failing up and down through the last three or four tours, what a trouper.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
Definition of trouper
Noun
  • Passyunk Avenue also features a replica of the mummers costume Jason wore during a parade after the Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • For Martin, any rivalry between the shows is a mummer’s farce (that is, foolish).
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2022
Definition of mummer
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