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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thespian
noun
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▪ George attempted a nearly honest living as a part-time thespian, and also as a tutor to the children of wealthy clients.
▪ He was, after all, a thespian.
▪ Mr Sylvester Stallone, the muscular thespian, is smitten once more.
▪ Murder wasn't a stage performance by the local thespians.
▪ Sir Richard's own towering performance has also set an example to his thespian colleagues.
▪ Sister Aimee was a talented thespian as well as a legendarily eloquent preacher.
▪ The only difficulty is that thespians are not, on the whole, accustomed to making up their own lines.
▪ We had total rapport, infant and thespian.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thespian

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thespian

1670s, "of or pertaining to tragedy or dramatic acting," from Greek Thespis, semi-legendary 6c. B.C.E. poet of Icaria in Attica, often called the Father of Greek Tragedy. The literal meaning of the name is "inspired by the gods."

thespian

"an actor," 1827, from thespian (adj.). Short form thesp is attested from 1962.

Wiktionary
thespian

a. Of, or relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical. n. An actor or player.

WordNet
thespian

  1. adj. of or relating to drama; "the movie director had thespian cooperation"

  2. n. a theatrical performer [syn: actor, histrion, player, role player]

Wikipedia
Thespian

Thespian may refer to:

  • A citizen of the Ancient Greek city of Thespiae
  • An actor or actress, derived from Thespis, the first credited actor
  • A member of the International Thespian Society, an honor society that promotes excellence in high school theater
  • "The Thespian", the sixth song of The Emptiness, the third studio album by American band Alesana

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.