title role

1. 1.

   the role of the character after whom the play is named

   Synonymsname part

   Broadercharacter

Questions about title role

What does title role mean?

title role means "the role of the character after whom the play is named".

What is another word for title role?

Close synonyms include name part. 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 title role a common word?

title role 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.