player

(plāər)

noun

  1. a person who plays a game: a football player
  2. a performer in a drama; actor
  3. a person who plays a musical instrument
  4. a gambler
  5. a person or group regarded as a chief or legitimate participant in some competitive activity, often one involving risk
    1. an apparatus attached to a musical instrument, as to a piano, for playing it automatically
    2. a device for playing tapes, records, discs, etc., esp. one that does not also record

See player in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. One that plays, especially:
    a. One who participates in a game or sport.
    b. A gambler.
    c. One who performs in theatrical roles.
    d. One who plays a musical instrument.
  2. An active participant: a major player in world affairs.
  3. The mechanism actuating a player piano.
  4. A machine that reproduces recorded audio or audio-visual material.
  5. Slang One who actively seeks out sexual partners and carries on a number of sexual affairs at the same time.

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