Prompter
['prɒm(p)tə] or ['prɑmptɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a device that displays words for people to read.
(noun.) someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech.
Typist: Sophie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.
(n.) One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.
Checked by Annabelle
Examples
- And that you undertook to do what you might have done by this time, if you had made a prompter use of circumstances,' snarled Lammle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You were our audience and prompter. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It seems there is a little hole on the stage with a hood over it, in which the prompter sits when opera is given. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In this instance it was not occupied, and I was given the position in the prompter's seat, and saw the whole ballet at close range. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Sean