Peter was an altruistic video game player; he would give items to people who needed them, rather than selling them for personal profit.
Source: tatoeba (1992)
Player
//ˈpleɪɚ//
Synonyms for "player" (209 found)
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4 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesat location
2 entriescapable of
16 entriesderived
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8 entrieshas property
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1 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
432 translations across 96 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- lojtar noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- lojtare noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Arabic
4 entries- جَهَاز noun (electronic device)
- جِهَاز noun (electronic device)
- قمار noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- لعاب noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Aragonese
1 entries- chugador noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Armenian
1 entries- խաղացող noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Aromanian
1 entries- giucãtor noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Assamese
1 entries- খেলুৱৈ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Asturian
1 entries- xugador noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- oyunçu noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Bashkir
1 entries- уйынсы noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Basque
1 entries- jokalari noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Belarusian
4 entries- гуле́ц noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- гуле́ц noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- плэ́ер noun (electronic device)
- прайграва́льнік noun (electronic device)
Bengali
2 entries- খেলোয়াড় noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- প্লেয়ার noun (electronic device)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- खिलाड़ी noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Bulgarian
4 entries- актьо́р noun (dramatic actor)
- арти́ст noun (dramatic actor)
- игра́ч noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- игра́чка noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Burmese
1 entries- ကစားသူ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Catalan
1 entries- jugador noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- یاریکەر noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 參加者 /参加者 noun (participant)
- 參與者 /参与者 noun (participant)
- 懒惰者 noun (one without serious aims)
- 播放器 noun (electronic device)
Czech
4 entries- hazardní hráč noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- herec noun (dramatic actor)
- hráč noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- hráč noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
Danish
4 entries- musiker noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- skuespiller noun (dramatic actor)
- spiller noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- spiller noun (gambler — see also gambler)
Dutch
4 entries- bespeler noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- gokker noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- player noun (software application)
- speelster noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Esperanto
2 entries- legilo noun (electronic device)
- legilo noun (software application)
Estonian
2 entries- mängija noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- pleier noun (electronic device)
Finnish
4 entries- koneisto noun (mechanism that actuates a player piano or similar)
- näyttelijä noun (dramatic actor)
- pelaaja noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- pelimies noun (person "playing the field")
French
4 entries- acteur noun (dramatic actor)
- actrice noun (dramatic actor)
- comédien noun (dramatic actor)
- comédienne noun (dramatic actor)
Friulian
3 entries- zugadore noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- zuiadôr noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- ğujadôr noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Galician
4 entries- actor noun (dramatic actor)
- lector noun (electronic device)
- reproductor noun (electronic device)
- reprodutor noun (software application)
Georgian
2 entries- დამკვრელი noun (software application)
- მოთამაშე noun (one who plays any game or sport)
German
4 entries- Abspieler noun (electronic device)
- Abspielgerät noun (electronic device)
- Akteur noun (participant)
- Aufreißer noun (person "playing the field")
Greek
4 entries- ηθοποιός noun (dramatic actor)
- μουσικός noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- παίκτης noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- παίκτρια noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Hebrew
3 entries- נַגָּן noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- שַׂחְקָן noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- שַׂחְקָנִית noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Hindi
2 entries- खिलाड़ी noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- प्लेयर noun (electronic device)
Hungarian
2 entries- játékos noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- lejátszó noun (electronic device)
Icelandic
1 entries- leikmaður noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Indonesian
2 entries- pemain noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- pemutar noun (software application)
Interlingua
1 entries- jocator noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- بازیکُن noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- دَسْتْگاهِ پَخْش noun (electronic device)
- قُمارْباز noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- پَخْشکُنَنْدِه noun (electronic device)
Irish
2 entries- imreoir noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- seinnteoir noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
Istriot
1 entries- zugadur noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Italian
4 entries- attore noun (dramatic actor)
- giocatore noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- giocatore noun (video games: gamer, gamester — see also gamer, gamester)
- lettore noun (electronic device)
Japanese
4 entries- ギャンブラー noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- プレイヤー noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- プレーヤー noun (electronic device)
- プレーヤー noun (software application)
Kazakh
1 entries- ойыншы noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Khmer
2 entries- ម៉ាស៊ីនចាក់ noun (electronic device)
- អ្នកលេង noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Korean
4 entries- 선수 noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- 플레이어 noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- 플레이어 noun (electronic device)
- 플레이어 noun (software application)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- оюнчу noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Lao
4 entries- ນັກຫລິ້ນ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- ນັກຫລິ້ນ noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- ຜູ້ຫຼິ້ນ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- ເຄື່ອງຫຼີ້ນ noun (electronic device)
Latin
4 entries- actor noun (dramatic actor)
- actrix noun (dramatic actor)
- aleator noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- aleo noun (gambler — see also gambler)
Latvian
2 entries- pleijeris noun (electronic device)
- spēlētājs noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Lithuanian
2 entries- grotuvas noun (electronic device)
- žaidėjas noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Macedonian
4 entries- глумец noun (dramatic actor)
- играч noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- играч noun (participant)
- играчка noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Malay
1 entries- pemain noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Malayalam
2 entries- കളിക്കാരൻ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- നടൻ noun (dramatic actor)
Maltese
1 entries- plejer noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡴᠠᡨᡠ᠋ᡵᡝᠪᡠᠰᡳ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Marathi
4 entries- खेळाडू noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- प्लेयर noun (electronic device)
- प्लेयर noun (software application)
- वादक noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
Min Nan Chinese
1 entries- 烏狗 /乌狗 noun (person "playing the field")
Mongolian
3 entries- тоглогч noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- тоглуулагч noun (electronic device)
- ᠲᠣᠭᠯᠠᠭᠴᠢ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Māori
4 entries- kaitākaro noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- kaiwhakatangi noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- pūpāpāho noun (electronic device)
- pūpāpāho noun (software application)
Navajo
4 entries- ayóoʼakalígíí noun (person "playing the field")
- naanéhé noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- naanéhé noun (person "playing the field")
- naanéhígíí noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Norman
4 entries- joueux noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- joueux noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- joueux noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- joueux noun (electronic device)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- ace noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- lîstikvan noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- lîstikvan noun (dramatic actor)
- muzîkjen noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- musiker noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- skuespiller noun (dramatic actor)
- spiller noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- spiller noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
Occitan
2 entries- jogador noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- jogaire noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Pashto
1 entries- بازيګر noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Späla noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- Späla noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
Polish
4 entries- aktor noun (dramatic actor)
- aktorka noun (dramatic actor)
- gracz noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- graczka noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Portuguese
4 entries- apostador noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- ator noun (dramatic actor)
- brincalhão noun (one without serious aims)
- instrumentista noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
Punjabi
4 entries- جُوأرِیا noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- کِھڈارَن noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- کِھڈارِی noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- ਖਿਡਾਰਨ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Romanian
4 entries- actor noun (dramatic actor)
- actriță noun (dramatic actor)
- interpret noun (dramatic actor)
- jucătoare noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Romansch
4 entries- giovader noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- giugadur noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- giuieder noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- giujeader noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Russian
4 entries- актри́са noun (dramatic actor)
- актёр noun (dramatic actor)
- арти́ст noun (dramatic actor)
- арти́стка noun (dramatic actor)
Sardinian
3 entries- giogadore noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- giogadori noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- zocadore noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cluicheadair noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- glùmica noun (dramatic actor)
- glúmac noun (dramatic actor)
- igràčica noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- izvođač noun (software application)
Shan
1 entries- ၽူႈလဵၼ်ႈ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Sicilian
1 entries- jucaturi noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Slovak
3 entries- hráč noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- hráčka noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- prehrávač noun (electronic device)
Slovene
2 entries- igralec noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- igralka noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Southern Altai
1 entries- ойынчы noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Spanish
4 entries- actor noun (dramatic actor)
- bajapantalones noun (person "playing the field")
- bandarra noun (person "playing the field")
- chongo noun (person "playing the field")
Swahili
2 entries- mchezaji noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- mchezaji noun (person "playing the field")
Swedish
4 entries- musikant noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- musiker noun (one who plays a musical instrument)
- skådespelare noun (dramatic actor)
- spelare noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Tagalog
1 entries- manlalaro noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Tajik
3 entries- бозингар noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- дастгоҳи пахш noun (electronic device)
- плеер noun (electronic device)
Tatar
1 entries- уенчы noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Thai
3 entries- ผู้เล่น noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- เครื่องเล่น noun (electronic device)
- เสือผู้หญิง noun (person "playing the field")
Turkish
4 entries- kumarbaz noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- kumarcı noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- oynatıcı noun (electronic device)
- oynatıcı noun (software application)
Turkmen
2 entries- oýunçy noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- pleýer noun (electronic device)
Ukrainian
4 entries- граве́ць noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- граве́ць noun (gambler — see also gambler)
- грач noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- грець noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Urdu
2 entries- پِلیئَر noun (electronic device)
- کِھلاڑی noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئويۇنچى noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Uzbek
2 entries- oʻyinchi noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- pleyer noun (electronic device)
Venetan
2 entries- xugadore noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- zugador noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cầu thủ noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- dân chơi noun (person "playing the field")
Welsh
3 entries- chwaraewr noun (one who plays any game or sport)
- chwaraewr noun (electronic device)
- chwaraewr noun (software application)
Yiddish
1 entries- שפּילער noun (one who plays any game or sport)
Sample sentences
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I want an MP3 player!
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You are a tennis player.
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If a player hit the tree with the ball, it meant that the crops would grow successfully.
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