role

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting

   what is your role on the team?

2. 2
   noun

   A character or part played by a performer or actor.

   My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.

3. 3
   noun

   The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.

   The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.

4. 4
   noun

   The function or position of something.

   Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.

5. 5
   noun

   Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges

   The project manager role is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks.

6. 6
   noun

   The function of a word in a phrase.

   Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.

7. 7
   noun

   the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group

8. 8
   noun

   what something is used for

Etymology

From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.