Word Meanings - FIGURANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
Related words: (words related to FIGURANT)
- OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - SCENEMAN
The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater. - TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - CHARACTER
1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; - NOTHINGNESS
1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value. - STAGERY
Exhibition on the stage. - SINGLY
1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack - CHARACTERISM
A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall. - TAKE
Taken. Chaucer. - SCENESHIFTER
One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - OPERANCE; OPERANCY
The act of operating or working; operation. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - TAKE-OFF
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. - OPERANT
Operative. Shak. -- n. - SCENE
1. The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage. 2. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action - OPERATION
Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. - STAGECOACHMAN
One who drives a stagecoach. - TAKE-IN
Imposition; fraud. - MONOTHALAMAN
A foraminifer having but one chamber. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - LOSINGLY
In a manner to incur loss. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - MONOTHALMIC
Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - MISTAKING
An error; a mistake. Shak. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - AGONOTHETE
An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece. - MISTAKINGLY
Erroneously. - DEBASINGLY
In a manner to debase.