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Actors vs Actress - What's the difference?

actors | actress |

As nouns the difference between actors and actress

is that actors is plural of lang=en while actress is a female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).

actors

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

    *

    actress

    English

    Alternative forms

    * actoress

    Noun

    (es)
  • * 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 290:
    • My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress , advanced the period of my labour.
  • A female actor on the stage or in films.
  • * 2011 , "Not going quietly", The Economist , 27 Jan 2011:
    • 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 .

    Usage notes

    * (term) may also be used to refer to a female player.

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