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Definition of Play-actor
1. Noun. An actor who travels around the country presenting plays.
Generic synonyms: Actor, Histrion, Player, Role Player, Thespian
Derivative terms: Playact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Play-actor
Literary usage of Play-actor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1886)
"There are the Romance words play-actor, coincide, coterie, a conversible woman,
pass off wares ; here the off is new. NABOB (1772). The new Substantives are ..."
2. The Scottish and American Poems of James Kennedy by James Kennedy (1899)
"THE play-actor. ANG PETER was an unco loun, ... For sad an' sair it rack'd her,
To think that weel-born bairn o' hers Would turn a waugh play-actor. ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"... avocation was that of a play-actor, and subsequently, as a successful one, a
play-house owner. — (Bolt.) Sun, Nov. ..."
4. The New English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1886)
"There are the Romance words play-actor, coincide, coterie, a conversible woman,
pass off wares ; here the off is new. NABOB (1772). The new Substantives are ..."
5. The Scottish and American Poems of James Kennedy by James Kennedy (1899)
"THE play-actor. ANG PETER was an unco loun, ... For sad an' sair it rack'd her,
To think that weel-born bairn o' hers Would turn a waugh play-actor. ..."
6. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"... avocation was that of a play-actor, and subsequently, as a successful one, a
play-house owner. — (Bolt.) Sun, Nov. ..."
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