a woman who performs on the stage, on television or in films/movies, especially as a profession
HELPNOTE Many women now prefer to be called actors, although when the context is not clear, an actor is usually understood to refer to a man.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for actress is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is actress a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, actress is tagged as noun.
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