Definition of PLAYER

player

Meanings

Plural: players

Noun

  • a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
  • someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
  • a theatrical performer
  • a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
  • an important participant (as in a business deal)
    • "he was a major player in setting up the corporation"
  • One that plays.
  • One who plays any game or sport.
  • One that plays.
  • An actor in a dramatic play.
  • One that plays.
  • One who plays on a musical instrument.
  • One that plays.
  • A gamer; a person of video games or similar.
  • One that plays.
  • 2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175
  • 2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175: The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
  • The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
  • A gambler.
  • A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
  • An electronic device that plays audio or video media.
  • A software application that plays audio or video media, such as a media player.
  • One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
  • A participant; one involved in something.
  • A participant; one involved in something.
  • One who participates in a particular type of sexual play.
  • A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.

Origin / Etymology

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

Scrabble Score: 11

player is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
player is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
player is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

player is a valid Words With Friends word