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Americanized spelling of the French topographic name Garrigue (see Garrigues).Scottish
Americanized spelling of the French topographic name Garrigue (see Garrigues).Scottish : variant of Garioch, a habitational name from the district in Aberdeenshire so named.English : habitational name from Garwick in Lincolnshire, named from an Old English personal name Gǣra + Old English wīc ‘(dairy) farm’.The name is closely associated with the Huguenots. The English actor-manager David Garrick (1717–79) was the grandson of David de la Garrique, who fled Bordeaux in 1685, changing his family name to Garric on arrival in England. Other Garricks (Garicks) were in SC in the 1820s.
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Hindu
A play, With dancers / actors, A musical Raagini
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Hindu
King among actors
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English American
Craftsman; wagon-wright; wagon driver. Famous Bearer: U.S. Actor John Wayne.
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Tamil
King among actors
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Hindu
Lord Shiva, King of the art of dancing, King among actors
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Hindu
Lord Shiva, King of the art of dancing, King among actors
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Tamil
A play, With dancers / actors, A musical Raagini
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lord Shiva, King of the art of dancing, King among actors
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name Spileman, which was originally an Old English byname meaning ‘juggler’, ‘tumbler’, ‘actor’. Compare Spiller.German (Spillmann) : variant of Spielmann.
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English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell).Irish : mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of St. Paul’ (see Guilfoyle).This surname is extremely common in Wales and has also spread throughout England and Ireland. The first recorded occurrence of the surname in its modern form is Roger ap Howell, alias Powell, named in a lawsuit in 1563. He was the grandson of Howell ap John (d. 1535). Snelling Powell, born in Carmarthen, Wales, in 1758, came to America in 1793 and was a successful actor and theater manager in Boston. Later members of the family include the novelist Anthony Powell (b. 1905).
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Tamil
Lord Shiva, King of the art of dancing, King among actors
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English
English : from an agent derivative of Middle English pleyen ‘to play’, hence an occupational name for an actor or musician or a nickname for a successful competitor in contests of athletic or sporting prowess.
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Indian
Actor
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Hindu
Lord Shiva, King of the art of dancing, King among actors
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Tamil
Lord Shiva, King of the art of dancing, King among actors
Boy/Male
English American
Keeper of provisions. Famous Bearer: actor Spencer Tracy.
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Irish
From Owen's territory. County Tyrone in Ireland. The late actor Tyrone Power.
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English
Man. Famous Bearer: late television actor Carroll O'Connor.
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English
Man. Famous Bearer: late television actor Carroll O'Connor.
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Hindu, Indian
Lord Siva
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Indian
Gold coin (Name of grandfather of abu bin Thabit)
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Indian
Light, Sun
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Indian, Sanskrit
Son of Siva
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Indian
Prince of the Clouds
Female
English
Pet form of English Marleen, MARLIE means "rebel of Magdala."Â
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Indian
Second
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Tamil
Poorvaja | பூரà¯à®µà®œà®¾
Elder sister, Complete
Female
Persian/Iranian
(مینو) Variant spelling of Persian Minoo, MINU means "heaven, paradise."
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Arabic, British, Indian, Tamil
Skilled Person
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ACTOR
n.
An actor.
n.
The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
n.
A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
v. t. & i.
To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
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A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.
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The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
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An actor or player in tragedy.
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A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.
n.
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 role of philanthropist.
a.
Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
n.
A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
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A subordinate actor.
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An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
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Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
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The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
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The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.
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A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
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A person or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.
v. t.
To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.
a.
Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.