Thespian

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Noun

Thespian (plural Thespians)

  1. A person from the ancient Greek city of Thespiae.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of thespian.
    • 1903, Adrian H Joline, The Diversions of a Book-Lover, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, page 170:
      In his way Carlyle was as much of a Thespian as Garrick or Kemble, Booth or Jeferson.
    • 1990, Pat Booth, Malibu, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 156:
      Now, I don’t think you’ve met Melissa Wayne, a fellow Thespian.
    • 1995 April, George Saunders, “Bounty”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 290, number 1739:
      The courtyard’s empty and the Clients are inside the castle making pigs of themselves while watching a troupe of Thespians bait an animatronic bear.

Adjective

Thespian (comparative more Thespian, superlative most Thespian)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of thespian.
    • 1890 December 24, “Judy’s Diary”, in Judy: The London Serio-comic Journal, volume 46, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 306, column 2:
      Went to that magnificent Temple of Thalia, the New Olympic, and saw the bewitchingest Pauline, in the person of Winifred Emery, that ever I saw in the shammiest, stagiest, tawdriest, tinsellest, transparentest, most diaphanously theatrical comedy I ever saw in the absolute period of my Thespian existence.
    • 1990, Pat Booth, Malibu, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 113:
      He stopped, and smiled, his blond hair, male-model good looks, and his ponytail giving away his Thespian dreams.
    • 2019 February 18, “Lee Radziwill, Former Princess and Sister of a First Lady, Is Dead at 85”, in The New York Times‎, section B, page 8:
      “A stunning clotheshorse upon whom no discernible Thespian demands were made,” wrote Jack Gould, the television critic for The New York Times.
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