Role

Noun

 * 1) A character or part played by a performer or actor.
 * My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.
 * Her dream was to get a role in a Hollywood movie, not matter how small.
 * 1) The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
 * The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.
 * 1) The function or position of something.
 * Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.
 * : The function of a word in a phrase.
 * 1) * 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2
 * Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.

Adjectives for Role
inquisitorial; crucial; subordinate; inglorious; dominating; important; restricted; decisive; benevolent; influential; essential; pessimistic; responsible; unsavory; villainous; significant; prominent; destined; tremendous; suitable; self-imposed.

Verbs for Role
acclaim—; adopt—; animate—; bolster—; color—; convey—; denounce—; enact—; ennoble—; exploit—; extol—; fill—; fire—; illuminate—; immortalize—; jade—; overact—; portray—; renounce—; romp through —; spice—.

Thesaurus
actor, antagonist, antihero, bit, bit part, capacity, cast, character, condition, cue, duty, end use, fat part, feeder, function, heavy, hero, heroine, immediate purpose, impersonation, ingenue, job, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, lines, office, operation, operational purpose, part, person, personage, piece, place, position, post, protagonist, province, purpose, quality, relation, responsibility, side, situation, soubrette, status, straight part, supporting character, supporting role, task, title role, ultimate purpose, use, villain, walk-on, walking part, work

Alternative forms

 * rôle

Etymology
From rôle.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, 役割,  役柄
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Norwegian: rolle
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: роль
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: vloga
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: పాత్ర


 * Greek:
 * Norwegian: rolle
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: роль


 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: vloga
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian: rolle


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: должность
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: vloga


 * Greek:


 * Portuguese: ,


 * : rol
 * : hlutverki
 * : rol

Derived terms

 * roleless
 * roleplay

Anagrams

 * lore
 * Orel
 * orle
 * relo

Noun
role


 * 1) role, part