Word Meanings - PERFORMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERFORMER)

• Adept
• Expert
• adroit
• handy
• master
• performer
• professor
• artist
• Agent
• Doer
• actor
• force
• means
• instrument
• influence
• cause
• promoter
• operator
• originator
• perpetrator
• maker

Related words: (words related to PERFORMER)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• ARTISTE
  One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook. Note: This term should not be confounded with the English word artist.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• PERPETRATOR
  One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime.
• ARTIST
  1. One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller. 2. One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside
• PROFESSOR
  1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• ACTOR
  1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
• HANDY-DANDY
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• PROFESSORSHIP
  The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• CHARTIST
  A supporter or partisan of chartism.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.