player
/ˈpleɪ.ɚ/ noun A1- One who plays any game or sport. · He is a player for the Australian team.
- An actor in a dramatic play.
- One who plays on a musical instrument.
- A gamer; a person of video games or similar. · He is an avid Minecraft player.
- A gambler.
- A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
- An electronic device that plays audio or video media. · Is your CD player broken, or is this one disc damaged?
- A software application that plays audio or video media, such as a media player.
Plural players
From the library
Dancers, players, talkers, all uttered an exclamation of joy—everyone inhaled with delight the breeze that floated in.
The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” about once in a minute.
She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and she did not like the look of things at all, as the game was in such confusion that she never knew whether it was her turn or not.
All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.
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