player
/ˈpleɪ.ɚ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.19 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One that plays.
noun
One that plays.
noun
One that plays.
noun
One that plays.
noun
One that plays.
noun
One that plays.
noun
One that plays.
noun
One that plays.
Example Sentences
- "He is a player for the Australian team."
- "All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, merely Players"
- "He is an avid Minecraft player."
- "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."
- "But up to this time the application of the player mechanism had been confined to reed instruments, the piano manufacturers having successfully resisted the introduction of the player mechanism into the piano; but, in the meantime, the manufacturers of players had grown strong and the manufacturers were beginning to properly interpret the handwriting on the wall"
- "A Technical Treatise on Piano Player Mechanism" contains detailed description of the various types of interior and exterior players, embracing manual, pneumatic, automatic, mechanical and electric"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *plegō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *plegōn Old English plegian Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Old English pleġere Middle English pleyer English player From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpleɪ.ɚ/
- British English: /ˈpleɪ.ə(ɹ)/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.