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thespian
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Word definitions for thespian in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to drama; "the movie director had thespian cooperation" n. a theatrical performer [syn: actor , histrion , player , role player ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thespian \Thes"pi*an\, a. [From L. Thespis, Gr. ?, the founder of the Greek drama.] Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art. -- n. An actor.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical. n. An actor or player.
Usage examples of thespian.
A prisoner of her thespian ambitions and his own impecunious situation, Mark felt increasingly like a bird in a gilded cage, albeit a gilded, distempered, decoupaged and beribboned cage lined with toile de Jouy.
Hello, said Ann, tinnily, and her voice evoked less mysticism amplified, she sounded like a junior high school thespian nervously engaged in a talent show.
He was in hall when I had dinner with the thespians, he was in the street, in the White Horse, in the library when I went there to work, waving at me cheerfully from a distance.
Tiphys, son of Hagnias, left the Siphaean people of the Thespians, well skilled to foretell the rising wave on the broad sea, and well skilled to infer from sun and star the stormy winds and the time for sailing.
The same summer the Thebans dismantled the wall of the Thespians on the charge of Atticism, having always wished to do so, and now finding it an easy matter, as the flower of the Thespian youth had perished in the battle with the Athenians.
What you see here is the cream of the Bexley heath Thespians up in town for our annual outing.
Saving Private Ryan, which is essentially an episode of the old TV show Combat with an okay Grand Guignol beginning and a mawkish framing device, and features the Mister Potato Head of contemporary thespians, Tom Hanks.
On the extreme right were the Thespians under Ictinus, forming their phalanx behind Parmenion and the 400 horsemen.
But behind the cavalry the Thespians, led by Ictinus, turned and fled from the field.
A pity, indeed, that you ever joined it -- I feel convinced that a notable Thespian has been thereby lost to the boards and the silver screen.