actress

• actoress (nonstandard)

From actor +‎ -ess.^[1][2][3] Probably formed independently of Middle French actrice.^[4]

• IPA^(key): /ˈæk.tɹɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æktɹɪs

actress (plural actresses)

1. A female who performs on the stage or in films. [from 17th c.]
   • 1972, Neil Young (lyrics and music), “A Man Needs a Maid”, in Harvest:

     A while ago somewhere I don't know when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand

   • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 88:

     "I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days."

   • 2011 January 27, “Not going quietly”, in The Economist:

     Court documents appear to show that Ian Edmondson, a senior News of the World journalist, had authorised Mr Mulcaire to hack phones belonging to Sienna Miller, an actress.

2. (now rare) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense). [from 16th c.]
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 290:

     My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.

• Actor may also be used to refer to a female performer.

• actorine (archaic, rare)
• actrice (archaic)

• actrix

• → Cebuano: aktres
• → Tagalog: aktres

• “actress”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “actress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Casters, casters, recasts, scarest

• IPA^(key): /ˈaktrəs/

actress (plural actresses)

1. actress

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.