role

See also rôle

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• rôle

Etymology

From French rôle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rōl
• IPA: /ɹəʊl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

role (plural roles)

1. A character or part played by a performer or actor.

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

   Her dream was to get a role in a Hollywood movie, not matter how small.

2. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.

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

3. The function or position of something.

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

4. (grammar): The function of a word in a phrase.
   • 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2

     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.

Translations

character or part

• Arabic: دور (ar) (dawr) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 角色 (cmn) (juésè), 角 (cmn) (jué)

• Czech: role (cs) f
• Finnish: rooli (fi)
• French: rôle (fr) m
• German: Rolle (de) f
• Greek: ρόλος (el) (rólos) m
• Hungarian: szerep (hu)
• Italian: ruolo (it) m

• Japanese: 役 (ja) (やく, yaku), 役割 (ja) (やくわり, yakuwari), 役柄 (ja) (やくがら, yakugara)
• Kurdish: ده‌ور (ku), dewr (ku) f
• Norwegian: rolle (no) m
• Portuguese: papel (pt) m
• Russian: роль (ru) (rol’) f
• Serbo-Croatian: uloga (sh) f
• Slovene: vloga f
• Spanish: papel (es) m
• Telugu: పాత్ర (te) (patra)

the expected behavior of an individual in a society

• German: Rolle (de) f
• Greek: ρόλος (el) (rólos) m
• Indonesian: peranan (id)
• Norwegian: rolle (no) m
• Portuguese: função (pt) f, papel (pt) m

• Russian: роль (ru) (rol’) f
• Serbo-Croatian: uloga (sh) f
• Slovene: vloga f
• Spanish: rol (es) m

the function or position of something

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 任務 (cmn), 任务 (cmn) (rènwu)

• German: Rolle (de) f, Aufgabe (de) f, Funktion (de) f
• Greek: ρόλος (el) (rólos) m
• Indonesian: peran (id), tugas (id)
• Japanese: 役 (ja) (やく, yaku)

• Norwegian: rolle (no) m
• Portuguese: função (pt) f, papel (pt) m
• Russian: должность (ru) (dólžnost') f
• Serbo-Croatian: uloga (sh) f
• Slovene: vloga f

(grammar) the function of a word in a phrase

• Greek: ρόλος (el) (rólos) m

• Portuguese: função (pt) f, papel (pt) m

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan: rol m
• Icelandic: hlutverki
• Kurdish: rol f

Derived terms

• roleless
• roleplay

Anagrams

• lore
• Orel
• orle
• relo

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Pronunciation

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Noun

role f

1. role, part

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Verb

role

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rolar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of rolar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rolar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rolar