Actress

Definition: Actress

Actress

Noun

1. A female actor.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "actress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Etymology: Actress \Ac`tress\, noun. [Compare to the French expression actrice.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Actress

A real actress! (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

I'm an actress (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Of course, I'd rather be known as a great actress than a movie star. (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

When does an actress get the idea that it's her words she's saying and her thoughts she's expressing? (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Just what the world needs, another actress. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

She came out here to be an actress ("Only In America"; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn)

You see, she was gonna be an actress ("Taxi"; performing artist: Harry Chapin)

The Actress (1953)

Actress (1948)

Secrets of an Actress (1938)

I Want to Be an Actress (1937)

The Actress (1928)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Very Young Actress (reference)

• Alternate Oscars: One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress from 1927 to the Present (reference)

• Annabel the Actress Starring in Just a Little Extra (reference)

• Asterix and the Actress (reference)

• Enter the Actress (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Actress (reference)

• My Wife Is an Actress (reference)

• Biography - Sophia Loren: Actress Italian Style (reference)

• Warlord & The Actress (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Actress Ethyl Merman, star of the stage hit "Girl Crazy", presents a young goat (lower right) to the ship's crew, possibly at about the time of Pensacola's commissioning in February 1930. Accepting the gift is the ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Alfred G. Howe, USN.Credit: NAVY.

The train to the coast. Movie actress going back to Hollywood after her vaudeville tour, hoping it will mean a new contract in the talkies.Credit: Library of Congress.

Actress Dorothy Dandridge prepares to enter bankruptcy court in the Federal Building.Credit: Library of Congress.

Electric Institute of Washington. Actress, Electric Institute.Credit: Library of Congress.

Ernest Shipman presents America's leading emotional actress, Mary Shaw.Credit: Library of Congress.

Kane, Shipman & Colvin present the emotional actress, Alberta Gallatin.Credit: Library of Congress.

The miniature Patti, Louise Marguerite the wonderful child singer & actress.Credit: Library of Congress.

Sarah Bernhardt, 1844-1923, actress.Credit: Library of Congress.

French actress, 1844-1923, acclaimed and beloved throughout the world for her artistry ...Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Egypt

In August the Public Prosecutor referred to trial Hani el-Nakshabandi, editor of the London-based magazine Sayedati, for slander against an Egyptian actress; the trial had not begun by year's end. (references)

Minorities

Brazil

For example, in April in Rio de Janeiro actress Vera Oliveira Gimenez was accused by Robson Fernandes Marcelo, a doorman in her apartment building, of having used a racial slur in speaking with him. (references)

Women

Philippines

Public attention on domestic violence increased in December, with the suicide of a famous actress whose husband, a former governor and congressman, reportedly had abused her for years. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "actress": best known actress ♦ cinema actress ♦ ham actress ♦ leading actress ♦ movie actress ♦ principal actress ♦ screen actress. Additional references.

Beginning with "actress": actress-dancer, actress-mother, actress-singer.

Ending with "actress": ex-actress, model-turned-actress, play-actress.

Afrikaan

aktrise. (various references)

Albanian

aktore (cinemactress). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممثلة, ‏الممثلة المسرحية. (various references)

Asturian

actriz. (various references)

Bemba

umwanakashi wafisela. (various references)

Bulgarian 

артистка, актриса. (various references)

Catalan

actriu. (various references)

Cebuano

artistang babaye. (various references)

Chinese 

女�"�"� , 女�"员. (various references)

Czech

hereèka. (various references)

Dutch

toneelspeelster, actrice. (various references)

Esperanto

aktorino. (various references)

Faeroese

sjónleikarakvinna. (various references)

Farsi 

هنرپیشه ء زن , بازیگرزن . (various references)

Finnish

näyttelijätär. (various references)

French

actrice. (various references)

Frisian

toanielspileres, spylster. (various references)

German

Schauspielerin (performer, play-actress), Darstellerin. (various references)

Greek 

ηθοποιόσ (actor, artiste, entertainer, impersonator, performer, thespian, trouper). (various references)

Hebrew 

שחק� ית. (various references)

Hungarian

színmûvésznõ, színésznõ, színésznô. (various references)

Icelandic

leikkona. (various references)

Indonesian

aktris, pelakon (actor, doer, performer). (various references)

Inuktitut

takujagaqatitiji aqnaq. (various references)

Irish

ban-aisteoir. (various references)

Italian

attrice. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

役者 (actor), 女優 , アクチニウ� 系列 (acrylic, Actinides, actinium series, activation, active, active defense, active homing, active solar house, active sonar, active sportswear, activity, actual, actual time, actuality, orgasm), 俳優 (actor, performer, player). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

アクトレス , やくしゃ (actor, translator), じょゆう, はいゆう (actor, performer, player, poetry pals). (various references)

Korean 

여배우. (various references)

Macedonian

glumica. (various references)

Manx

ben chloie. (various references)

Papiamen

aktris. (various references)

Pig Latin

actressay

Portuguese

actriz, atriz. (various references)

Provencal

actritz. (various references)

Romanian

actriţã (tragedienne). (various references)

Romansch

actura. (various references)

Russian 

актриса. (various references)

Samoan

teine ole ata. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

glumica. (various references)

Sicilian

attrici. (various references)

Spanish

actriz (performer, player). (various references)

Sranan

preymisi. (various references)

Swedish

skådespelerska, aktris. (various references)

Turkish

artíst (actor), aktris, aktrís, kadın oyuncu. (various references)

Ukranian 

актриса. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nữ diễn viên, đ� o hát. (various references)

Welsh

actores. (various references)

mima. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "actress": actresses, actressy. (additional references)

Words ending with "actress": benefactress. (additional references)

Words containing "actress": benefactresses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Actress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accress, acerts, acters, antres, Bactris. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: casters, recasts.

-1 letter: assert, asters, caress, carets, carses, cartes, caster, castes, caters, cestas, crases, crates, crests, escars, reacts, recast, scares, scarts, seracs, stares, traces.

-2 letters: acres, arses, asset, aster, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, cases, caste, casts, cater, cates, cesta, crass, crate, cress, crest, easts, escar, races, rases, rates, react, recta, rests, sates, scare, scars, scart, scats, sears, seats, sects, serac, stare, stars, taces, tares, tasse, tears, trace, trass, tress, tsars.

-3 letters: aces, acre, acts, arcs, ares, arse, arts, ates, care, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cess, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, race, rase, rate, rats, recs, rest, rets, sacs, sate, scar, scat, sear, seas, seat, secs, sect, sera, sers, seta, sets, star, tace, tare, tars, tass, tear, teas, tsar.

-4 letters: ace, act, arc, are, ars, art, ass, ate, car, cat, ear, eat, era, ers, ess, eta, ras, rat, rec, res, ret, sac, sae, sat, sea, sec, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea.

-5 letters: ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta.

+1 letter: actressy, cateress, cerastes, coarsest, coasters, crassest, precasts, restacks, scarcest, scariest, scarlets, scatters, stackers, starches.

+2 letters: actresses, ancestors, backrests, cabestros, cabrestas, cabrestos, cadasters, cadastres, canisters, caritases, castrates, catharses, ceramists, chastiser, coatdress, creasiest, cytasters, ectosarcs, escargots, forecasts, mistraces, ostracise, overcasts, practises, reascents, recusants, sarcenets, scarriest, scenarist, scimetars, scramjets, scratches, seacrafts, secateurs, sectaries, snatchers, staircase, stanchers, suricates, tesseract, traceless, trackless, transects.

+3 letters: ancestress, ancestries, antecessor, armistices, ascertains, ascorbates, astrocytes, cannisters, carditises, careerists, cartelises, castoreums, cateresses, chasteners, chastisers, coruscates, costmaries, courtesans, craftiness, crassitude, croustades, cutgrasses, desecrates, escalators, interclass, larcenists, marcasites, masseteric, miscreants, miscreates, newscaster, orchestras, ostracised, ostracises, ostracizes, ostracodes, prefascist, reductases, resistance, rusticates, sacraments, sacristies, scarcities, scatterers, scenarists, scraggiest, scrappiest, scratchers, scrawliest, scrawniest, sectarians, secularist, shortcakes, sidetracks, spaceports, spectators, staircases, starchiest, stavesacre, stomachers, streetcars, tesseracts, tracksides, transcends, transduces, transfects, trichiases, watercress.

+4 letters: abstracters, abstractest, aerostatics, aftershocks, antecessors, archpriests, autocrosses, backstreets, backstrokes, breadsticks, cassiterite, casuistries, catachreses, catachresis, categorises, centralises, centralisms, centralists, ceramicists, chartreuses, clavierists, coatdresses, consecrates, cotransfers, crassitudes, crustaceans, crustaceous, crystalizes, crystallise, curtainless, desecraters, desecrators, desiccators, dispatchers, dockmasters, enchantress, erraticisms, escarpments, escharotics, eviscerates, forecasters, forecastles, franticness, gastroscope, goatsuckers, insectaries, interspaces, lacklusters, linecasters, microstates, monstrances, newscasters, orthoclases, pacesetters, pasticheurs, prefascists, rascalities, recitalists, reescalates, requiescats, researchist, resistances, resuscitate, revanchists, rickettsias, saltcellars, sanctifiers, sanctuaries, scatterguns, scatterings, scattershot, scoutmaster, scrabbliest, scraggliest, scratchiest, secretaries, secularists, spacecrafts, speculators, spermacetis, stagecrafts, stagestruck, starchiness, statecrafts, stavesacres, streetscape, subchapters, subtracters, supremacist, tapersticks, telecasters, testatrices, transcribes, transducers, transiences, waterscapes.

+5 letters: absorptances, abstractness, accurateness, ancestresses, anthracnoses, arthroscopes, atmospherics, backscatters, backstabbers, benefactress, blacklisters, broadcasters, cassiterites, cataphoreses, cataphoresis, catastrophes, catchphrases, ceratopsians, choirmasters, clarinetists, clearstories, clericalists, commiserates, compensators, consecrators, conservatism, conservators, consternates, contrabasses, contrariness, contredanses, cornstarches, cotoneasters, cotransduces, countryseats, craftinesses, craftsperson, crapshooters, creationisms, creationists, creativeness, criticalness, criticasters, crosshatched, crosshatches, crosspatches, crystallised, crystallises, crystallites, crystallizes, desecrations, disturbances, emasculators, gastroscopes, intercostals, intraspecies, letterspaces, macrocytoses, magistracies, masterpieces, mesothoraces, miscreations, musculatures, orchestrates, osteosarcoma, ostracoderms, overcastings, plasticizers, psychiatries, reactiveness, rebroadcasts, researchists, respectables, resuscitated, resuscitates, resuscitator, romanticises, sabermetrics, sacramentals, sarcomatoses, scattergoods, scattergrams, schoolmaster, scoutmasters, scratchiness, searchlights, secretariats, sectarianism, secularistic, secularities, semiabstract, separatistic, shortchanges, spatterdocks, spectaculars, spectrograms, spirochaetes, sportscaster, sternocostal, streetscapes, subcuratives, subsecretary, superplastic, supremacists, surrealistic, tracheitises, transceivers, transcribers, transections, transiencies, translocates, transpierces, truckmasters, varicosities, vasculatures, verticalness, watercourses, watercresses, weathercasts, witchgrasses, wristwatches.

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