Entertainment / Literature / Part: An actor's role in a play, the character the actor portrays or pretends to be. The term comes from Renaissance drama. Since it was too expensive in Shakespeare's day to print playbooks for every single actor involved in a play, penny-pinching acting companies would only give each actor a roll of paper called a 'part', the part would list the dialogue for one character and all the cues belonging to that character (Greenblatt 1140). The term role, synonymous with 'part,' is similarly derived from such rolls of paper (ibidem). (Latin partum, 'a piece')
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Part Verb Synonyms: portion, component, factor, constituent, element, ingredient
Part Noun Synonyms: piece, portion, division, allotment, share, percentage, participation, interest, parcel, fragment, scrap, shard, some
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