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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Role

/rōl/ · IPA /ɹoʊl/
01 n. A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the rol…
  1. 1.
    A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.
Phrases & compounds
Title role — the part, or character, which gives the title to a play, as the part of Hamlet in the play of that name.