PERFORMER

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does performer mean? 

• PERFORMER (noun)
  The noun PERFORMER has 1 sense:

1. an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

  Familiarity information: PERFORMER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERFORMER (noun)

Meaning:

An entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

performer; performing artist

Hypernyms ("performer" is a kind of...):

entertainer (a person who tries to please or amuse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "performer"):

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

monologist (an entertainer who performs alone)

instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))

puppeteer (one who operates puppets or marionettes)

Savoyard (a person who performs in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan)

sightreader (a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music))

snake charmer (a performer who uses movements and music to control snakes)

second banana; straight man (a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian)

ecdysiast; exotic dancer; peeler; stripper; striptease; striptease artist; stripteaser (a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music)

strongman (a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus)

vaudevillian (a performer who works in vaudeville)

minstrel (a performer in a minstrel show)

conjurer; conjuror; illusionist; magician; prestidigitator (someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience)

juggler (a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity)

artiste (a public performer (a dancer or singer))

baton twirler; twirler (someone who twirls a baton)

comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)

cowboy; rodeo rider (a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging)

dancer; professional dancer; terpsichorean (a performer who dances)

executant (a performer (usually of musical works))

fire-eater; fire-swallower (a performer who pretends to swallow fire)

fire walker (someone who walks barefoot on burning coals)

geek (a carnival performer who does disgusting acts)

headliner; star (a performer who receives prominent billing)

ventriloquist (a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy)