supporting players

1. 1.

   a cast other than the principals

   Synonymsensemble

   Broadercast

Questions about supporting players

What does supporting players mean?

supporting players means "a cast other than the principals".

What is another word for supporting players?

Close synonyms include ensemble. 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 supporting players a common word?

supporting players 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.