<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A person or thing that plays.</li><li>A person who takes part or is skilled in some game or sport.</li><li>A person who plays parts on the stage; an actor.</li><li>A performer on a musical instrument.</li><li>Informal. A participant, as in a conference or business deal.</li><li>A machine or piece of software that reproduces sound or images: a videodisc player; a record player; a digital media player.</li><li>A gambler.</li><li>Slang. A person engaged in illicit or illegal activity, especially a pimp.</li><li>A mechanical device by which a musical instrument, as a player piano, is played automatically.</li></ul>