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acter

noun
/ˈæk.tə/UK/ˈæk.tɚ/US

Etymology

From act + -er (“person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies”).

  1. derived from *h₂éǵeti✻
  2. derived from ācta
  3. derived from acte
  4. inherited from acte
  5. suffixed as acter — “act + er”

Definitions

  1. A play or film with a particular number of acts.

    • a one-acter
    • a two-acter

  2. An actor, someone who or something which acts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA