role
Noun
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is a type of: duty - work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasonssubtypes:
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is a type of: characterization, enactment, personation, portrayal - acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesturesubtypes:
- bit part, minor role - a small role
- heavy - a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- hero - the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
- ingenue - the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play
- name part, title role - the role of the character after whom the play is named
- heroine - the main good female character in a work of fiction
- baddie, villain - the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction
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tells us about:
- functional - designed for or capable of a particular function or use
- nonfunctional - not having or performing a function
is a type of: usefulness, utility - the quality of being of practical usesubtypes: raison d'etre - the purpose that justifies a thing's existence -
is a type of: activity - any specific behaviorsubtypes:
- gender role - the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness
- position - (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
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