PLAYERS: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for PLAYERS?

Need another word that means the same as “players”? Find 7 synonyms and 30 related words for “players” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Players” are: participant, instrumentalist, musician, actor, histrion, role player, thespian

Players as a Noun

Definitions of "Players" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “players” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously.
• A theatrical performer.
• A person who participates in or is skilled at some game.
• An important participant (as in a business deal.
• Someone who takes part in an activity.
• Someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession.

Synonyms of "Players" as a noun (7 Words)

actor	A person who behaves in a way that is not genuine. In war one must be a good actor.
histrion	An actor.
instrumentalist	Someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession. Is the skilled pop instrumentalist an endangered species.
musician	Someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession. Aspiring rock and pop musicians.
participant	A person who participates in or is skilled at some game. Staff are to be active participants in the decision making process.
role player	The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
thespian	A theatrical performer. An ageing thespian.

Usage Examples of "Players" as a noun

• He was a major player in setting up the corporation.

Associations of "Players" (30 Words)

actor	A theatrical performer. Employers are key actors within industrial relations.
amateur	Engaged in as a pastime. It s all so amateur.
badminton	A game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is hit back and forth across a net.
baseball	The hard ball used in baseball. There was a baseball game on every empty lot.
basketball	The inflated ball used in basketball.
bowler	A felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim.
defender	A person who cares for persons or property. A determined defender of British interests.
five	A playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips.
football	A ball used in football either round as in soccer or oval as in rugby and American football and typically made of leather or plastic and filled with compressed air. His team played some impressive football.
game	Games the score at a particular point or the score needed to win. In order to be popular you had to be good at games.
hexad	The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one. Each segment down to the tiniest hexad of cilia is practically identical in shape.
inning	(baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat.
pentad	The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
quartet	A composition for a quartet. A Beethoven quartet.
quintet	A musical composition for a quintet. A novel about a quintet of interrelated lovers.
quintuple	Having five units or components. The company s revenues would quintuple over the next decade.
rugby	A team game played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand. Points are scored by grounding the ball behind the opponents’ goal line (thereby scoring a try) or by kicking it between the two posts and over the crossbar of the opponents’ goal.
seven	One of four playing cards in a deck with seven pips on the face.
sextet	A composition for a sextet. A sextet of new releases.
six	A playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips.
soccer	A football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents’ goal.
team	Form a team. He teamed up with the band to produce the disc.
thespian	An actor or actress. An ageing thespian.
thirty	Being ten more than twenty.
three	One of four playing cards in a deck having three pips.
triad	A three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones. The triad of medication diet and exercise are necessary in diabetes care.
trio	The central, typically contrastive, section of a minuet, scherzo, or march. A jazz trio.
triple	Hit a triple. The party more than tripled its share of the vote.
violinist	A musician who plays the violin. The most renowned virtuoso violinist of his time.
woodwind	Wind instruments other than brass instruments forming a section of an orchestra, including flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons. A woodwind instrument.