spear carrier

1. 1.

   a minor actor in crowd scenes

   Synonymssupernumeraryextra

   Broaderactor

Questions about spear carrier

What does spear carrier mean?

spear carrier means "a minor actor in crowd scenes".

What is another word for spear carrier?

Close synonyms include supernumerary, extra. 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 spear carrier a common word?

spear carrier 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.