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Someone who takes part in an activity
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participant
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Word definitions for participant in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an active participant ▪ The student must be an active participant in the learning process. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE active ▪ A murder victim is not a stage-prop in the drama of his death but an active participant ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Sharing; participating; having a share of part. n. One who participates.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Participant \Par*tic"i*pant\, a. [L. participans, p. pr. of participare: cf. F. participant. See Participate .] Sharing; participating; having a share or part. --Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Middle French participant , from Latin participantem (nominative participans ), present participle of participare "to share in, partake of" from particeps "sharing, partaking" (see participation ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who takes part in an activity a person who participates in or is skilled at some game [syn: player ]
Usage examples of participant.
AFFM ninety-nine Will have more accredited participants than any of its predecessors since the event moved to Santa Monica.
After things began to settle into shape at Millen, they seemed to believe that they were in such ascendancy as to numbers and organization that they could put into execution their schemes of vengeance against those of us who had been active participants in the execution of their confederates at Andersonville.
Open Innovation companies regard the VC community, and the start-ups the community funds, as mutualistic participants in a complex ecosystem of firms that create, recombine, compete, imitate, and interact with each other.
It was there that he recruited participants for his amateur pornographic videos, there that he encouraged his wife to expand her list of clients, there that he would listen on the intercom system while she made love, or peep through the holes he had cut in the doors to watch, and there, too, that he would indulge his passion for perverted sexuality.
Participants who are enthusiastic about the experiment are the most successful in these precognition studies.
They will learn to embrace the fact that clients can be active, knowledgeable participants in their own psychotherapeutic endeavors.
In quintain the participants used lances to charge at a target attached to an arm.
Melbai had already warned me of the one most sacrosanct rule of the Bacchic societies: that no participant ever disclose to the uninvited what occurred inside the temple doors.
Does he care to say what is unpersuasive about the evidence adduced by so many historians and participants, from the hawkish Bundy and Haldeman to the more skeptical Clark Clifford?
The ballroom now presented a babel of noise as countless conversations and group discussions proceeded, some heatedly, with participants raising voices.
Quintus had left him for adventures in the vineyards, but some nagging shred of conscience told Sabinus that he should remain an observer at the bacchanal, not a participant.
Parisian purses was surely naught by the side of this--to have to discuss with the Cavals, the Machaults and other professionals the case, almost unprecedented, in which they were participants.
His deconstructionist accounts of science began with his experience as a post-doctoral anthropologist, when he spent a year as a partially participant observer in a Californian laboratory working on the identification and isolation of a neurohormone.
As equal participants in the great dialog, they simply do not have such a function.
The pioneers of all three species were dedicated to the idea that a stable interspecies culture could be created without significantly reengineering the brains and endocrinological systems of its participants.