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Role   /roʊl/   Listen
Role

noun
1.
The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.  Synonyms: function, office, part.  "The government must do its part" , "Play its role"
2.
An actor's portrayal of someone in a play.  Synonyms: character, part, persona, theatrical role.
3.
What something is used for.  Synonyms: function, purpose, use.  "Ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"
4.
Normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting.



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"Role" Quotes from Famous Books



... have the right to cast the stone at them; especially as American liberality, as I shall presently show, is of a nature to put our parsimony to shame. As to the bankrupt acts, of which American creditors have many times complained, nothing can justify them; yet here again the role of pedagogue scarcely becomes us. If more than one American railroad company have taken advantage of a crisis to declare without much dishonor, a suspension of payment, it is not proved that these suspensions of payment must be converted into bankruptcy. If more than ...
— The Uprising of a Great People • Count Agenor de Gasparin
... was ready to sacrifice his dearest friends, morbidly sensitive to the faintest suggestion of a personal slight, and prompter than the serpent to vent against the aggressor the bitterness of his poison, he plays the role of Ishmael among the men of letters in his day. The violence of his retorts when he felt himself injured and his capacity for giving offence even when he was not directly provoked, begot a resentment in his adversaries which ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin
... le mouvement religieux, issu d'Oxford il y a bientot soixante-dix ans, que la transformation fut operee. Par le mouvement religieux, qui fut admirable, et aussi par le mouvement politique ou la Revolution et la France jouerent un role preponderant. Ces deux facteurs ont ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... passage to Hong-Kong, and achieved his ends quite as handily as in his present role of wireless operator. But his fingers had begun to itch again for the heavy brass transmission-key, and his ears were yearning for the drone of radio voices across the ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... give Mr. Houston their undivided attention, he obtained sufficient insight into their characters, and enough of an inkling of their business methods, to make him more determined than ever to unearth their schemes, and doubly anxious to succeed in the role which he ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour


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