title role
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- noun
- /ˈtaɪtəl roʊl/
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papel principal
- Abram plays the title role in 'Louis Armstrong: Jazz Ambassador,' which gets its world premiere Nov. 3 in New York City.
- play the title role
- performance in the title role
- took the title role
Examples
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Young Lilla Crawford in the title role is a revelation.
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Albert Finney plays the title role, and his is, by far, the best Scrooge I've ever seen.
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Finally, I got my first title role.
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"Lincoln" starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role tonight.
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Miguel had asked for and received the title role, the boy who won't grow up.
Fiction book (2001) -
She was the first actress to be paid $1 million for her title role in the movie "Cleopatra."
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Rob McClure is, if anything, even more masterful in the title role, doing really bravura work.
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The great Catalan actress Margarita Xirgu (1888-1969) produced Hamlet and performed the title role herself in 1938 during her exile in South America.
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In the new adaptation, Emma Watson plays the title role of the beloved character in the film.
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Daniel Craig takes on the title role in the latest James Bond movie, showcasing his skills as 007.
Synonyms
The role of the character whose name is in the title
How Central
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the role of the character after whom a work is named' is directly and compositionally derived from 'title' (the name of the work) and 'role' (the part an actor plays). This noun–noun combination follows ordinary English naming patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Title role comes from posters and programmes: the title is the name on the poster and the role is the character in the show. So the title role is the character whose name appears in the title, which is why it means 'the role after whom a play or film is named'.