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Definitions of role
  1. noun
    the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
    "play its role"

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  2. noun
    what something is used for

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  3. noun
    an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
  4. noun
    normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting
    "what is your role on the team?"
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Definition that contains role
  • take assume, as of positions or roles
  • man a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
  • call order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
  • house play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
  • woman a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man
  • play play a role or part
  • head (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
  • young British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
  • part that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
  • doctor children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
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