Defenition of the word actor

• Defenition of the word actor

  • A person that plays a designated role in a film or play.
  • A male person that plays a designated role in a film or play.
  • a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker"
  • a theatrical performer
  • a person who acts and gets things done; "he''s a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he''s a miracle worker"
  • a person who acts and gets things done

Synonyms for the word actor

• • doer
  • histrion
  • player
  • role player
  • thespian
  • worker

Hyponyms for the word actor

• • actress
  • Al Jolson
  • Alec Guinness
  • Alfred Lunt
  • Allen
  • Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  • animator
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Arthur John Gielgud
  • Asa Yoelson
  • Astaire
  • ball of fire
  • barnstormer
  • Baron Olivier of Birghton
  • Barrymore
  • Bela Ferenc Blasko
  • Bela Lugosi
  • Bing Crosby
  • Bogart
  • Booth
  • Boris Karloff
  • Bruce Lee
  • Burbage
  • Burton
  • Buster Keaton
  • busy bee
  • Cagney
  • Cary Grant
  • character actor
  • Charles Laughton
  • Charles Robert Redford
  • Chevalier
  • Clark Gable
  • comedian
  • Cooper
  • Coward
  • Crosby
  • David Garrick
  • De Niro
  • Dean
  • demon
  • Depardieu
  • Douglas Elton Fairbanks
  • Douglas Fairbanks
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
  • Drew
  • Dudley Moore
  • Dudley Stuart John Moore
  • Duke Wayne
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • E. G. Marshall
  • eager beaver
  • Edmund Kean
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Edward Goldenberg Robinson
  • energiser
  • energizer
  • Erich von Stroheim
  • Eugene Curran Kelly
  • extra
  • Fairbanks
  • fireball
  • Fonda
  • Francis Albert Sinatra
  • Frank Cooper
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Fred Astaire
  • Gable
  • Garrick
  • Gary Cooper
  • Gene Kelly
  • George C. Scott
  • George Orson Welles
  • Gerard Depardieu
  • Gibson
  • Gielgud
  • go-getter
  • Grant
  • Granville-Barker
  • Guinness
  • ham
  • ham actor
  • Hanks
  • Harley Granville-Barker
  • Harold Clayton Lloyd
  • Harold Lloyd
  • Harrison
  • Harry Lillis Crosby
  • heavy
  • Heming
  • Hemminge
  • Henry Fonda
  • Herbert Blythe
  • Hoffman
  • Hopkins
  • Howard
  • human dynamo
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Humphrey DeForest Bogart
  • ingenue
  • Jack Lemmon
  • James Byron Dean
  • James Cagney
  • James Dean
  • James Maitland Stewart
  • James Mason
  • James Neville Mason
  • Jimmy Cagney
  • Jimmy Stewart
  • John Barrymore
  • John Drew
  • John Heming
  • John Hemminge
  • John Uhler
  • John Wayne
  • John Wilkes Booth
  • Jolson
  • Joseph Francis Keaton
  • Julius Ullman
  • Karloff
  • Kean
  • Keaton
  • Kelly
  • Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev
  • Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky
  • Konstantin Stanislavsky
  • Laszlo Lowestein
  • Laughton
  • Laurence Olivier
  • lead
  • leading man
  • Lee
  • Lee Yuen Kam
  • Lemmon
  • Leslie Howard
  • Leslie Howard Stainer
  • Lionel Barrymore
  • live wire
  • Lloyd
  • Lorre
  • Lugosi
  • Lunt
  • man of action
  • man of deeds
  • Marshall
  • Martin
  • Mason
  • Maurice Barrymore
  • Maurice Chevalier
  • Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson
  • Mel Gibson
  • mime
  • mimer
  • Mitchum
  • Moore
  • movie actor
  • mummer
  • Newman
  • Noel Coward
  • O'Toole
  • Olivier
  • Orson Welles
  • Otis Skinner
  • pantomimer
  • pantomimist
  • Paul Newman
  • Peter Alexander Ustinov
  • Peter Lorre
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Peter Seamus O'Toole
  • Peter Sellers
  • plant
  • play-actor
  • playactor
  • Poitier
  • powerhouse
  • principal
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Redford
  • reenactor
  • Reginald Carey Harrison
  • Rex Harrison
  • Richard Burbage
  • Richard Burton
  • Richardson
  • Robert De Niro
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Robert Redford
  • Robinson
  • scene-stealer
  • Scott
  • screen actor
  • Sellers
  • sharpie
  • sharpy
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Sinatra
  • Sir Alec Guinness
  • Sir Anthony Hopkins
  • Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
  • Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
  • Sir John Gielgud
  • Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier
  • Sir Noel Pierce Coward
  • Sir Peter Ustinov
  • Sir Ralph David Richardson
  • Sir Rex Harrison
  • Skinner
  • spear carrier
  • Spencer Tracy
  • standby
  • Stanislavsky
  • star
  • Steve Martin
  • Stewart
  • Stroheim
  • supernumerary
  • Thomas J. Hanks
  • Tom Hanks
  • Tracy
  • tragedian
  • Tree
  • trouper
  • understudy
  • upstager
  • Ustinov
  • vitaliser
  • vitalizer
  • walk-on
  • Wayne
  • Welles
  • whiz-kid
  • whizz-kid
  • William Clark Gable
  • William Henry Pratt
  • Woody Allen

Hypernyms for the word actor

• • human
  • individual
  • mortal
  • performer
  • performing artist
  • person
  • somebody
  • someone
  • soul

Idioms for the word actor

• • actor pecoris
  • actor summarum

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