actress
NounUS[ak-truhs]/ˈæktrəs/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)actresses
- a female actorType of actor, womanKinds starlet, leading lady, tragedienneExamples Le Gallienne, Kelly, Pickford, Fonda, Barrymore, Crawford, Fontanne, Garbo, Lillie, Monroe +40 more
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Translations
Noun female actor
- Spanish
- actriz
- French
- actrice
- German
- Schauspielerin
- Italian
- attrice
- Portuguese
- atriz
- Turkish
- aktris
- Arabic
- مُمَثِّلَة mumaṯṯila
- Japanese
- 女優 joyū
- Dutch
- actrice
- Swedish
- aktris
23 more languages
- Greek
- ηθοποιός ithopoiós
- Korean
- 여배우 yeobae'u
- Indonesian
- aktris
- Hungarian
- színésznő
- Portuguese (PT)
- atriz
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 伶 líng
- Albanian
- vepruese
- Catalan
- actriu
- Czech
- herečka
- Danish
- skuespillerinde
- Esperanto
- aktorino
- Estonian
- näitlejatar
- Finnish
- näyttelijätär
- Georgian
- მსახიობი ქალი msaxiobi kali
- Hebrew
- שַׂחְקָנִית sakhkanít
- Icelandic
- leikkona
- Latvian
- aktrise
- Norwegian
- skuespillerinne
- Romanian
- actriță
- Scottish Gaelic
- ban-actair
- Serbo-Croatian
- glumica
- Slovak
- herečka
- Welsh
- actores
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ac′tress (…), noun
Origin: Cf. F. actrice.
1. A female actor or doer. obsolete Henry. Cockeram
2. A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54