performer

B1 Topic:People & Society
US /pɚˈfɔɹmɚ/ UK /pəˈfɔːmə/
noun Freq #11084

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A person who acts, sings, dances, or plays music for an audience.

    The street performer drew a large crowd with her singing.

  2. 2
    noun

    A person who does or carries out a particular action.

    She is a strong performer in maths and science.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a person who acts, sings,... performing artist
Word family
Forms performers
Derived forms autoperformercyberperformernonperformerperformerly

Etymology

From perform + -er.

Topics

markdown

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