performer

«performer» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who entertains an audience by acting, singing… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a performer, performers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person who entertains an audience by acting, singing, dancing, playing music or doing tricks. tree →

2) A person or thing that does well or badly at something: «a top performer». tree →

sense in the lessons

In school: assemblies, school plays and concerts have performers; in drama and music lessons pupils learn to be performers and good audiences. In everyday life: street performers, circus performers. Phrases: «street performer», «circus performer», «a natural performer», «top performer».

examples

• The street performer juggled flaming torches. tree →
• Every performer bowed at the end of the show. tree →
• She's a natural performer and loves the stage. tree →
• The circus performers did amazing tricks. tree →
• Give the performers a big round of applause! tree →
• He was the top performer in the maths competition. tree →
• Both of the performers appeared on the stage. tree →

note

Countable. From perform + -er. Spelling: per-, not «pre-». Noun of the action: performance.

In the corpora

• One mimed song on a TV show, where many performers mime, does not prove a singer cannot sing.
• A stunt double is a trained stunt performer who stands in for an actor in the dangerous moments.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «performer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.