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nonactor en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English non- Latin agō Latin āctus Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin āctorbor. Middle English actour English actor English nonactor From non- + actor.

Meanings

1. Someone who is not an actor
   • I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts. 2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:

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