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par·tic·i·pant

(pär-tĭs′ə-pənt)

One that participates, shares, or takes part in something.

adj.

Sharing in or taking part; participating.

par·tic′i·pance n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

par•tic•i•pant

(pɑrˈtɪs ə pənt)

n.

1. a person or group that participates.

adj.

2. participating; sharing.

[1520–30; < Latin]

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Noun	1.	participant - someone who takes part in an activity attendee, meeter, attendant, attender - a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees" discussant - a participant in a formal discussion associate - a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" bride - a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony groom, bridegroom - a man participant in his own marriage ceremony masker, masquer, masquerader - a participant in a masquerade partaker, sharer - someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share player - an important participant (as in a business deal); "he was a major player in setting up the corporation" retreatant - a participant in a religious retreat
	2.	participant - a person who participates in or is skilled at some game player contestant - a person who participates in competitions ballplayer, baseball player - an athlete who plays baseball billiard player - someone who plays billiards bowler - a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins card player - someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games chess player - someone who plays the game of chess dart player - someone who plays the game of darts football player, footballer - an athlete who plays American football golf player, golfer, linksman - someone who plays the game of golf grandmaster - a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge hockey player, ice-hockey player - an athlete who plays hockey lacrosse player - an athlete who plays lacrosse most valuable player, MVP - the player judged to be the most important to the sport playmaker - a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score pool player - someone who shoots pool scorer - a player who makes a score in a game or contest seeded player, seed - one of the outstanding players in a tournament server - (court games) the player who serves to start a point shooter - (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket) soccer player - an athlete who plays soccer stringer - a member of a squad on a team; "a first stringer"; "a second stringer" tennis player - an athlete who plays tennis volleyball player - someone who plays the game of volleyball

participant

noun participator, party, member, player, associate, shareholder, contributor, stakeholder, partaker He was a reluctant participant in the proceedings.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

participant

noun

One who participates:

actor, party, player.

Translations

účastník-ice

deltager

Teilnehmer Teilnehmerin

participante

osallistujaosanottaja

participant participante

rész vevő

òátttakandi

udeleženec

deltagare

katılımcı

participant

[pɑːˈtɪsɪpənt] N (in debate, fight, argument) → participante mf; (in competition) → concursante mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

participant

[pɑː^rˈtɪsɪpənt] n → participant(e) m/f
the course participants, the participants on the course → les participants au stage
an active participant → un participant actif

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

participant

n → Teilnehmer(in) m(f) (→ in +gen, → an +dat); (in scuffle etc) → Beteiligte(r) mf (→ in +gen, → an +dat); the bank will not be a participant in this project → die Bank wird sich nicht an diesem Vorhaben beteiligen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

participant

[pɑːˈtɪsɪpənt] n participant (in) → partecipante m/f (a)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

participate

(paːˈtisipeit) verb

to be one of a group of people actively doing something. Did you participate in the discussion?

parˌticiˈpation noun

parˈticipant, parˈticipator nouns

a person who participates (in a particular activity). the participants in the Olympic Games.

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I was an interested spectator of events, and, sometimes swept on by the rush, was myself a curious participant. For my mind had leaped to a star-cool altitude and grasped a passionless transvaluation of values.

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"You certainly have the credit of being the first of us to find this out, and, as you say, it bears every mark of having been written by the other participant in last night's mystery.

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And so our Bert Smallways became a participant in one of the most cold-blooded slaughters in the world's history, in which men who were neither excited nor, except for the remotest chance of a bullet, in any danger, poured death and destruction upon homes and crowds below.

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The participants in it, instead of freighting an ungainly steam ferry--boat with youth and beauty and pies and doughnuts, and paddling up some obscure creek to disembark upon a grassy lawn and wear themselves out with a long summer day's laborious frolicking under the impression that it was fun, were to sail away in a great steamship with flags flying and cannon pealing, and take a royal holiday beyond the broad ocean in many a strange clime and in many a land renowned in history!

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By some subtle spiritual or physical alchemy observation had been transmuted into action--the sightseers had become participants in the spectacle--the audience had usurped the stage.

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But this labor concluded, he may have thought it expedient to remove all participants in his secret.

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The amount of compensation deferred before January 1, 2005, under such a plan equals the earned and vested portion of the participant's account balance as of December 31, 2004.

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