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Definition of Playing

1. Noun. The act of playing a musical instrument.

2. Noun. The action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation.

3. Noun. The performance of a part or role in a drama.

Definition of Playing

1. Noun. (context: gerund of play) An occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of play) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Playing

1. play [v] - See also: play

Lexicographical Neighbors of Playing

playgirls playgoer playgoers playgoing playgoings playground playground ball playground taunt playground taunts playgrounds

playgroup playgroups playhouse playhouses playin' playing (current term) playing Cupid playing Nostradamus playing apparatus playing area

playing around playing ball playing card playing cards playing down playing field playing fields playing in playing period playing possum

Literary usage of Playing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"former playing Shylock and Lear, and the latter Richard and Romeo. ... While the company was playing in Philadelphia, Mr. Douglass built a new theatre in ..."

2. Music (1900)
"SOMETHING ABOUT SELF-playing INSTRUMENTS. BY WSB MATHEWS. ... Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a self-playing instrument. ..."

3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"A reference to his playing with Kean in ' Richard III ' which appears in his ' Recollections,' ... 1824, Mrs. Bedford, late Miss Green, playing Rosetta ..."

4. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"Card-playing on the Atlantic. ' him a year's trial. ... Apropos of ' rolling, I have forgotten to mention that in playing whist ' we are obliged to put the ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"playing-cards are probably an invention of the East, and some assert that the Arabs or Saracens learned the use of cards from the gypsies and spread them in ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"former playing Shylock and Lear, and the latter Richard and Romeo. ... While the company was playing in Philadelphia, Mr. Douglass built a new theatre in ..."

7. Music (1900)
"SOMETHING ABOUT SELF-playing INSTRUMENTS. BY WSB MATHEWS. ... Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a self-playing instrument. ..."

8. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"A reference to his playing with Kean in ' Richard III ' which appears in his ' Recollections,' ... 1824, Mrs. Bedford, late Miss Green, playing Rosetta ..."

9. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"Card-playing on the Atlantic. ' him a year's trial. ... Apropos of ' rolling, I have forgotten to mention that in playing whist ' we are obliged to put the ..."

10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"playing-cards are probably an invention of the East, and some assert that the Arabs or Saracens learned the use of cards from the gypsies and spread them in ..."

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