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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.

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  • 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.

 

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