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noun a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
noun someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
noun a theatrical performer
originFrom Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.
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