role

See also: rôle

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• rôle

Etymology

From French rôle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rōl
• IPA^(key): /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, no 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.

   What rôle does the wax in your earhole fulfill?

   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 3: 

     In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

4. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes

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

5. (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 m (dawr)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: role (cs) f
• Finnish: rooli (fi)
• French: rôle (fr) m
• German: Rolle (de) f
• Greek: ρόλος (el) m (rólos)
• Hungarian: szerep (hu)
• Italian: ruolo (it) m
• Japanese: 役 (ja) (やく, yaku), 役割 (ja) (やくわり, yakuwari), 役柄 (やくがら, yakugara)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: dewr (ku) f

  Sorani: دەور (dewr)

• Norwegian: rolle m
• Persian: رل (fa) (rol)
• Portuguese: papel (pt) m
• Russian: роль (ru) f (rol’)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: улога f

  Roman: uloga f

• Slovene: vloga f
• Spanish: papel (es) m
• Telugu: పాత్ర (te) (patra)
• Turkish: rol (tr)

the expected behavior of an individual in a society

• German: Rolle (de) f
• Greek: ρόλος (el) m (rólos)
• Indonesian: peranan (id)
• Norwegian: rolle m
• Portuguese: função (pt) f, papel (pt) m
• Russian: роль (ru) f (rol’)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: улога f

  Roman: uloga f

• Slovene: vloga f
• Spanish: rol (es) m

the function or position of something

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 任務 (zh), 任务 (zh) (rènwu)

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

• Portuguese: função (pt) f, papel (pt) m
• Russian: должность (ru) f (dólžnost')
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: улога f

  Roman: uloga f

• Slovene: vloga f
• Turkish: işlev (tr), görev (tr), rol (tr)

(grammar) the function of a word in a phrase

• Greek: ρόλος (el) m (rólos)

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

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• 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