Word Meanings - FIGURANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.

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• OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• SCENEMAN
  The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• SINGLY
  1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• SCENESHIFTER
  One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• OPERANCE; OPERANCY
  The act of operating or working; operation.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• OPERANT
  Operative. Shak. -- n.
• SCENE
  1. The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage. 2. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action
• OPERATION
  Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• DEBASINGLY
  In a manner to debase.