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nounthe actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or grouptype of:
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nounwhat something is used fortype of:
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nounan actor's portrayal of someone in a play
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nounnormal or customary activity of a person in a particular social settingtype of:
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