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# performer

«performer» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who entertains an audience by acting, singing…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a performer, performers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who entertains an audience by acting, singing, dancing, playing music or doing tricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/#m1)

2) A person or thing that does well or badly at something: «a top performer». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school: assemblies, school plays and concerts have performers; in drama and music lessons pupils learn to be performers and good audiences. In everyday life: street performers, circus performers. Phrases: «street performer», «circus performer», «a natural performer», «top performer».

### examples

- The street performer juggled flaming torches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/#x1)
- Every performer bowed at the end of the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/#x2)
- She's a natural performer and loves the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/#x3)
- The circus performers did amazing tricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/#x4)
- Give the performers a big round of applause! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/#x5)
- He was the top performer in the maths competition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/#x6)
- Both of the performers appeared on the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/#x7)

### note

Countable. From perform + -er. Spelling: per-, not «pre-». Noun of the action: performance.

### In the corpora

- [One mimed song on a TV show, where many performers mime, does not prove a singer cannot sing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/10/)
- [A stunt double is a trained stunt performer who stands in for an actor in the dangerous moments.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «performer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.