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actress

noun
/ˈæk.tɹɪs/

Etymology

From actor + -ess. Probably formed independently of Middle French actrice.

  1. derived from āctor
  2. derived from actor
  3. derived from actor
  4. inherited from actour
  5. suffixed as actress — “actor + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female who performs on the stage or in films.

    • A while ago somewhere I don't know when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand
    • "I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days."
    • Court documents appear to show that Ian Edmondson, a senior News of the World journalist, had authorised Mr Mulcaire to hack phones belonging to Sienna Miller, an actress.

  2. A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).

    • My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.

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Derived

actressy, adult actress, as the actress said to the bishop, as the bishop said to the actress, said the actress to the bishop, said the bishop to the actress, blacktress, character actress, live actress, mattress actress, play-actress, supporting actress, voice actress

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for actress. 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