Role in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Role

You can make 15 words from 'role' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'role'
• 3 letters words from 'role'
• 2 letters words from 'role'

4 letters words from 'role'

EORL 4	LORE 4
ORLE 4	ROLE 4

3 letters words from 'role'

LOR 3	OLE 3
ORE 3	REO 3
ROE 3

2 letters words from 'role'

EL 2	ER 2
LO 2	OE 2
OR 2	RE 2

Definitions and meaning of role

role

Pronunciation

• enPR: rōl
• IPA^(key): /ɹəʊl/
• Rhymes: -əʊl
• Homophone: roll

Etymology 1

From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll.

Alternative forms

• rôle

Noun

role (plural roles)

1. A character or part played by a performer or actor.

2. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.

3. The function or position of something.
4. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes

5. (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
   • 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2

     Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.

6. (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.

Hyponyms

• subrole

Derived terms

• role-based
• roleless
• roleplay

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

role (plural roles)

1. (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.

References

• role on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, lore, orle, relo

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrolɛ]
• Rhymes: -olɛ
• Hyphenation: ro‧le

Etymology 1

From German Rolle, from Old French rolle, role (“parchment scroll, inventory”), from Latin rotula, rotulus (“little wheel”), which is a diminutive of rota (“wheel”).

Noun

role f

1. role, part (of an actor) [19th c.]
2. lines (spoken text of an actor playing a part)
3. role (e. g. of a person in a society)
4. (linguistics) role (function of a constituent in a clause)
5. scroll [19th c.]

Declension

Synonyms

• (of an actor): úloha, part
• (text): part
• (in a society): úloha
• (scroll): svitek

Derived terms

• rolička

Related terms

• rolovat
• roláda

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *orlьja, from*orati.

Noun

role f

1. (obsolete, literary) field (area to grow crops) [14th c.]
2. old unit of field measurement
3. (obsolete, literary) area, domain (of activity)

Declension

Synonyms

• (in agriculture): pole
• (domain): obor, okruh

Derived terms

• rolička

Related terms

• rolník
• rolnický
• rolnictví

Anagrams

• orel
• orle

References

Further reading

• role in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• role in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Old French

Noun

role m (oblique plural roles, nominative singular roles, nominative plural role)

1. roll; scroll (rolled up document)

Descendants

• → English: roll
• French: rôle
  • → English: role

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (role, supplement)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.lɛ/

Noun

role

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of rola

Further reading

• role in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Verb

role

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rolar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rolar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rolar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rolar

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Spanish

Verb

role

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rolar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rolar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rolar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rolar.

Source: wiktionary.org

• ROLAMITE, two or more rollers connected by a belt but relatively loose.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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