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Crossword-Solution: PLAY 4 letters, 393 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Play n. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the
sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
Play n. To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be
careless.
Play n. To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence,
to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
Play n. To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
Play n. To act; to behave; to practice deception.
Play n. To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with
alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain
plays.
Play n. To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
Play n. To act on the stage; to personate a character.
Play v. t. To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a
fortification; to play a trump.
Play v. t. To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
Play v. t. To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to
play a waltz on the violin.
Play v. t. To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in
action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
Play v. t. To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action;
as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by
acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the
woman.
Play v. t. To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for
amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
Play v. t. To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
Play n. Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
Play n. Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or
diversion; a game.
Play n. The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or
a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune
in play.
Play n. Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play;
sword play; a play of wit.
Play n. A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in
which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
Play n. The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as,
he attends ever play.
Play n. Performance on an instrument of music.
Play n. Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a
wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
Play n. Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display;
scope; as, to give full play to mirth.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
PLAY anagram LAYP, PALY, PYAL, PYLA

We have 393 clues for the answer “PLAY”

Clue Answers
"A Raisin in the Sun," for one 1 answer
"All work and no __ . . ." 1 answer
"Angels in America" started as one 1 answer
"Festival," for instance. 1 answer
"Fleabag" started as one 1 answer
"Gideon," for example. 1 answer
"Hamlet" or "Hamilton" 1 answer
"Harvey" or "Annie" 1 answer
"High Tor," for example. 1 answer
"Kind Sir," for instance. 1 answer
"Macbeth" or "Sleep No More" 1 answer
"Oedipus Rex" or "Waiting for Godot" 1 answer
"One Bright Day," for instance. 1 answer
"Picnic" for instance. 1 answer
"Proof" or "Doubt" 1 answer
"Pygmalion", for one 1 answer
"Richard III" or "Henry V" 1 answer
"Romeo and Juliet," for one 1 answer
"Sabrina Fair," for instance. 1 answer
"Start the movie" button 1 answer
"Stop Kiss," for example 1 answer
"Take Me Out," e.g. 1 answer
"The Frogs," for example. 1 answer
"The Glass Menagerie," for one 1 answer
"The Iceman Cometh." 1 answer
"The Mousetrap," for one 1 answer
"The Teahouse," for instance. 1 answer
"The thing" to Hamlet 1 answer
"The work of the child": Maria Montessori 1 answer
"Toys are children's words and ___ is their language" (Garry Landreth) 1 answer
"Tru," e.g. 1 answer
"Will it ___ in Peoria?" 1 answer
"Wit" or "Doubt" 1 answer
"___ it, Sam" 1 answer
A need for Jack 1 answer
Activity of childhood. 1 answer
Actor's vehicle. 1 answer
Acts as one? 1 answer
Alternative to work? 1 answer
Arthur Miller creation 1 answer
Assembly show 1 answer
August Wilson creation 1 answer
Be in the band 1 answer
Be in the game or in the band 1 answer
Be on the team 1 answer
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Purpose," for one 1 answer
Take part in a game or sport 1 answer
Cassette function 1 answer
Certain Jack's need 1 answer
Chalk talk diagram 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLAY (5)

When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Skilled was he in sports and pastimes, In the merry dance of snow-shoes, In the play of quoits and ball-play; Skilled was he in games of hazard, In all games of skill and hazard, Pugasaing, the Bowl and Counters, Kuntassoo, the Game of Plum-stones.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
The meaning, not the Name I call: for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old _Olympus_ dwell’st, but Heav’nlie borne, Before the Hills appeerd, or Fountain flow’d, Thou with Eternal wisdom didst converse, Wisdom thy Sister, and with her didst play In presence of th’ Almightie Father, pleas’d With thy Celestial Song.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Snake, being in great torment and not knowing how to rid himself of his enemy, saw a wagon heavily laden with wood, and went and purposely placed his head under the wheels, saying, “At least my enemy and I shall perish together.” The Dog and the Hare A HOUND having started a Hare on the hillside pursued her for some distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her life, and at another fawning upon her, as if in play with another dog.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose[Fr]; child's play, kinderspiel.
Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991

Quotes with PLAY (3)

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
Candace Bushnell Sex and the City
Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.''Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.' 'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?' 'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You b…
Margery Williams Bianco The Velveteen Rabbit
Rough as life can be, I know in my bones we are supposed to stick around and play our part. Even if that part is coughing to death from cigarettes, or being blown up young in a house with your mother watching. And even if it's to be that mother. Someone down the line might need to know you got through it. Or maybe someone you won't see coming will need you. Like a kid who asks you to help him clean motel rooms. Or some ghost who drifts your way, hungry. And good people might …
Bill Clegg Did You Ever Have a Family
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 331 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).