different between audience vs actor

English

Etymology

From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”). Doublet of audiencia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???di.?ns/

Noun

audience (plural audiences)

1. A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc. [from 15th c.]

   We joined the audience just as the lights went down.

2. (now rare) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening. [from 14th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VII:

     When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.

3. A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
5. A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. [from 16th c.]

6. The readership of a book or other written publication. [from 19th c.]

7. A following. [from 20th c.]

8. (historical) An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.

Usage notes

• In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum.

  The audience are getting restless.

Synonyms

• hearership, listenership
• (large gathering of people watching a performance): spectators, crowd

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• audience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Audience (meeting) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French audience, borrowed from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.dj??s/

Noun

audience f (plural audiences)

1. audience, viewer

Synonyms

• attention
• entretien
• séance

Derived terms

• salle d'audience

Related terms

• audimat
• audimètre
• auditeur, auditrice
• audition
• auditoire

Further reading

• “audience” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English audience, from Latin audientia, derived from audi?ns, present active participle of audi? (“I hear, listen to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.djens/
• Hyphenation: au?dience

Noun

audience f (uncountable)

1. audience (widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public)

Related terms

• udienza

English

Alternative forms

• acter (uncommon)
• actour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English actor, from Latin ?ctor (“doer”), from ag? (“to do”). Equivalent to act +? -or. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (ákt?r, “leader”), from ??? (ág?, “lead, carry, convey, bring”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æk.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æk.t?/
• Homophone: acter
• Rhymes: -ækt?(?)

Noun

actor (plural actors, feminine actress)

1. A person who performs, plays a part in a theatrical play or film.
2. One who acts; a doer.
3. One who takes part in a situation.
4. (law) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
5. (law) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
6. (policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.
7. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
8. (linguistics, grammar) The most agent-like argument of a clause, e.g. 'the torpedo' in "The torpedo sank the boat" and "The torpedo fired".

Usage notes

• In the sense of a person who acts in a play or film, the traditional sense of the word only applied to male actors; the term actress being used for the female counterpart.

Synonyms

• (person who performs in a theatrical play or film): performer, player
• (one who acts): doer
• (one who takes part): participant
• (advocate in civil courts or cases):
• (a plaintiff): complainant, plaintiff
• (one who enacts a policy action)
• (entity performing a role in use case analysis): role

Antonyms

• (grammatical role): undergoer

Hyponyms

• (person who performs in a theatrical play or film): actress f
• enactor
• reenactor

Derived terms

• character actor
• nonstate actor
• straight actor
• voice actor

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: actair
• ? Welsh: actor

Translations

Further reading

• actor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• actor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• actor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Croat, Croat., carto-, rocta, taroc

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ?ctor.

Noun

actor m (plural actores)

1. An actor.

Related terms

• actriz

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ?ctor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?k?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ak?to?/

Noun

actor m (plural actors, feminine actriu)

1. An actor.

Related terms

• actuar

Further reading

• “actor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?ctor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k.t?r/
• Hyphenation: ac?tor
• Rhymes: -?kt?r

Noun

actor m (plural actores or actoren, diminutive actortje n)

1. An actor; an agent, a player, who has a part in some field of economical, social or other action, i.e. an active human factor.

Related terms

• acteur
• actie
• activiteit
• agenda
• agens
• ageren
• agitatie
• agitator
• reactor

Latin

Etymology

Agent noun formed from ?ctus +? -tor, perfect passive participle of ag? (“do, act, make”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?k.tor/, [?ä?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ak.tor/, [??kt??r]

Noun

?ctor m (genitive ?ct?ris, feminine ?ctr?x); third declension

1. A doer.
2. An actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or movie).
3. A (law) prosecutor, plaintiff, advocate, orator.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• ?cti?
• ?ctr?x
• ?ctus
• agit?

Descendants

References

• actor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• actor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• actor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• actor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• actor in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• actor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• actor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• actor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Noun

actor

1. Alternative form of actour

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ?ctor.

Pronunciation

Noun

actor m (plural actors, feminine actritz, feminine plural actrises)

1. An actor.

Portuguese

Noun

actor m (plural actores)

1. Superseded spelling of ator.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• aftor (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French acteur, Latin ?ctor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak?tor/

Noun

actor m (plural actori, feminine equivalent actri??)

1. (acting) An actor.

Declension

Synonyms

• artist, interpret

Derived terms

• actora?
• actoricesc
• actorie

See also

• teatralist

References

• actor in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Scots

Etymology

From English actor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?akt?r/

Noun

actor (plural actors)

1. An actor.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin actor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??to?/, [a???t?o?]
• Hyphenation: act?or
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

actor m (plural actores, feminine actriz or actora, feminine plural actrices or actoras)

1. An actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or movie)

Derived terms

• actor de voz
• actor porno

Related terms

• acción
• acto
• actoral
• actuar

Noun

actor m (plural actores, feminine actora, feminine plural actoras)

1. (law) A defendant.

Further reading

• “actor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• corta
• tocar

Welsh

Etymology

From English actor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?akt?r/

Noun

actor m (plural actorion)

1. An actor.

Coordinate terms

• actores (“actress”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “actor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies