Definitions for actor-manager

actor-manager ac·tor-man·ag·er

Spelling: [ak-ter-man-uh-jer]
IPA: /ˈæk tərˈmæn ə dʒər/

Actor-Manager is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 972 anagrams from letters in actor-manager (-aaacegmnorrt).

Definitions for actor-manager

noun

  1. a leading actor who produces and usually stars in his or her own productions:

Origin of actor-manager

First recorded in 1860-65

Examples for actor-manager

Mr. Bourchier is an actor-manager of much talk and self-importance.

But the actor-manager's part is Antony—Antony scores all along the line.

The English actor-manager was a wise man in his London generation.

Not knowing this, the actor-manager paid him ninepence a night.

Lady Prattler (a confirmed first-nighter, to actor-manager).

Over the mantelpiece, that was Henry Irving, the 19th-century actor-manager who was the first English actor to be knighted.

But the play is at the mercy of the actor-manager, and the actor-manager has no mercy.

It is here that the teaching of the critic comes in, with the flair of the actor-manager.

Through the canvas he felt the stern gaze of the actor-manager.

Author and actor-manager walked up the lawn puffing at their cigars.

Word Value for actor-manager
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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