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語源

From actor +‎ -ess. Probably formed independently of Middle French actrice.

発音

• (weak vowel distinction)
  • IPA: /ˈæk.tɹɪs/, [ˈæk.tɹ̝̊ɪs], [ˈæk.t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɪs]
• (weak vowel merger)
  • IPA: /ˈæk.tɹəs/, [ˈæk.tɹ̝̊əs], [ˈæk.t̠ɹ̠̊˔əs]
• 韻: -æktɹɪs
• ハイフネーション: act‧ress

名詞

actress (plural actresses)

1. A female who performs on the stage or in films. [from 17th c.]
   • 1972, Neil Young, “A Man Needs a Maid”, in Harvest:

     A while ago somewhere I don't know when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand

   • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 88:

     "I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days."

   • 2011 January 27, “Not going quietly”, in The Economist:

     Court documents appear to show that Ian Edmondson, a senior News of the World journalist, had authorised Mr Mulcaire to hack phones belonging to Sienna Miller, an actress.

2. (now rare) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense). [from 16th c.]
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 290:

     My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.

使用する際の注意点

• Actor may also be used to refer to a female performer.

同意語

• actorine (archaic, rare)
• actrice (archaic)

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Cebuano: aktres
• → Tagalog: aktres

参照

• “actress”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “actress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Casters, casters, recasts, scarest