part(SEPARATE PIECE)
She quickly left the chorus for a starring role.她很快离开歌舞队去出演一个主要角色。
She's done all the important Shakespearean roles apart from Lady Macbeth.
Marlene Dietrich was immortalized through her roles in movies like 'The Blue Angel'.
The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.这出歌剧里6个主要角色的平均音域覆盖两个八度。
In despair, the theatre director recast the leading role.无可奈何之下，戏剧导演更换了主角。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cinema & theatre: casting, roles & scripts
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bit part
callback
cameo role
cast list
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exeunt
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Harlequin
miscast
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supporting
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table read
tapescript
teleplay

role | American Dictionary

role
noun[ C ]
us/roʊl/

rolenoun[C] (DUTY)

the duty or use that someone or something usually has or is expected to have:
Bouchard hopes to play a pivotal/major/key role in Quebec’s future.

rolenoun[C] (REPRESENTATION)

the person whom an actor represents in a movie or play:
Astin plays the role of Radford, the store’s owner.

Examples of role

role
Their roles in friendships changed too in that they needed to determine how their friends were responding to their illness and adapt to that.
Instead, important individuals played essential roles, and their talent and authority was reported to be crucial to the building's success.
The extensive chapter on abolition, for example, skims over modes of liberation, the roles of families and post-liberation livelihoods.
Women, work, and caregiving : how do these roles affect women's well-being ?
Future research should pay particular attention to the disruption of values, roles and social relationships.
There was a stronger rationale for reform and both international and domestic factors played important roles.
Men, women and children in vulnerable livelihood systems negotiate different activity roles and access patterns to household capital.
A particularly sensitive issue concerns the registration of voters and the respective roles of the electoral commission and the interior ministry.
In order to facilitate interpretation of the roles that these small parameter s play in the gover ning equations, the equations are rearranged.
The actors not only double up to play different parts, but also perform different roles as entertainers, musicians, and storytellers.
She would put on a scarf and play various roles.
Our verb results confirm the joint roles of informativeness and limited resources hypothesized in the introduction.
The same pronoun is used for both masculine and feminine individuals and for subject and object case roles.
The cotton-manufacturing industry fulfilled different roles in each town, and consequently had a different impact on each political environment.
In this functional approach, the roles of language use and frequency receive greater emphasis.
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Collocations withrole

role

These are words often used in combination with role.

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acting role
This was, however, his first acting role.
active role
Most of the participants' mothers played both a passive and activerole in their daughters' illnesses and also both a negative and positive role.
advisory role
Rejecting the purely advisoryrole reluctantly assigned to it, the committee sought instead actively to direct women's war effort.
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