ROLE

(REPRESENTATION) [noun] [C] - the person whom an actor represents in a film or playHe has played some of the great Shakespearean roles, including Hamlet and Henry V.She's got the leading (= main) role in the school play.He won an Oscar for his supporting role in the film.Role play is a method of acting out particular ways of behaving or pretending to be other people in order to teach people how to deal with new situations.Role play is used in training courses, language-learning and psychotherapy.They used role play to train us how to deal with aggressive customers.