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player definition

player (plā′ər)

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
  6. ☆
    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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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