performing artist

1. 1.

   an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

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Questions about performing artist

What does performing artist mean?

performing artist means "an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience".

What is another word for performing artist?

Close synonyms include performer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is performing artist a common word?

performing artist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.