role
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
role/rəʊl/
▶noun
- 1 an actor's part in a play, film, etc.
- 2 a person's or thing's function in a particular situation.
– origin C17: from obs. Fr. roule ‘roll’, referring orig. to the roll of paper on which the actor's part was written.
'role' also found in these Oxford entries:
act
- actant
- agent
- appoint
- attack
- bat
- be
- bit part
- blackface
- bow
- capacity
- catalase
- ceremonial
- chair
- chorus
- Civil List
- come
- commissioner
- co-opt
- cortex
- costume
- count
- cover
- credit
- customer-facing
- cut
- dance
- dean
- debut
- defence
- demon
- destroyer
- displace
- double
- emasculate
- enact
- femme
- fiddle
- fill
- fit
- functional
- gamer
- gestalt therapy
- goalkeeper
- hand
- harlequinade
- ineffectual
- inquisitorial
- install
- institution
