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Synonyms for performers


Grammar : Noun
Spell : per-fawrm
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈfɔrm

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Définition of performers

Origin :
  • c.1300, "carry into effect, fulfill, discharge," via Anglo-French performer, altered (by influence of Old French forme "form") from Old French parfornir "to do, carry out, finish, accomplish," from par- "completely" (see per-) + fornir "to provide" (see furnish).
  • Theatrical/musical sense is from c.1600. The verb was used with wider senses in Middle English than now, including "to make, construct; produce, bring about;" also "come true" (of dreams), and to performen muche time was "to live long." Related: Performed; performing.
  • noun entertainer
Example sentences :
  • Lay some more down in the centre as a flooring for the performers.
  • Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
  • Some of the other performers were leaving the orchestra by two little doors.
  • Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
  • Then we saw emerge from the temple a third band of performers.
  • Extract from : « The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ » by Nicolas Notovitch
  • The performers had been as agile then as now; but their agility had been free from any danger of a tumble.
  • Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray
  • The thirty performers were skillful musicians, and the effect was admirable.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • He doesn't seem to have noticed at all how cleverly you have used your performers.
  • Extract from : « Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) » by Frank Wedekind
  • They could hardly be called listeners, for they were all performers.
  • Extract from : « Japanese Fairy World » by William Elliot Griffis
  • As for the performers, I can readily believe they never heard a note of the whole.
  • Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
  • Without him the stage had no attraction, and she cared not who were the performers.
  • Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
  • Clemens, introducing the performers, was the gay feature of the occasion.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
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