noun🔗ShareA character or part played by a performer or actor."Her dream was to get a role in a Hollywood movie, no matter how small."entertainmentcharacterliteratureartChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe expected behaviour of an individual in a society."The role of women has changed significantly in the last century."societyculturehumanpositionorganizationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe function or position of something."Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill."positionfunctionjoborganizationsocietyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareDesignation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes"The project manager role is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks."jobbusinessorganizationsocietyfunctionpositionworkChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(grammar) The function of a word in a phrase."In the sentence "The cat sat on the mat," the words have different roles: "cat" is the subject, "sat" is the verb, and "mat" is the object. "grammarlinguisticslanguagewordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareIn the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain."In Raku programming, a Student class and a Teacher class can both use roles like Callable or Serializable to add extra behaviors without making them share a direct inheritance relationship. "computingtechnologylanguagesystemtechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment."The scribe carefully counted out three roles of parchment for the royal decree. "numberhistorywritingamountunitChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
