rôle
UK /ɹəʊl/ · US /ɹoʊl/ noun
Forms rôles
- noun (often poetic) Dated spelling of role.
- noun A character or part played by a performer or actor. “My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.”
- noun The expected behaviour of an individual in a society. “The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.”
- noun The function or position of something. “Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.”
- noun Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges “The project manager role is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks.”
- noun (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
- noun (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
- noun (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
Synonyms
capacity function office part character theatrical role persona purpose use
Etymology
From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the rôle of philanthropist. Title rôle, the part, or character, which gives the title to a play, as the part of Hamlet in the play of that name.
Etymology [F. See Roll.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rôle”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details