player

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
  2. noun someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
  3. noun a theatrical performer

Etymology

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.

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Synonyms

participant

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