Meaning

2 senses
  1. One who participates.

    Near-synonyms: entrant, partaker

    All participants must adhere to the rules of the competition.

    Teilnehmer, Teilnehmerin

    уча́стникučástnik, уча́стницаučástnica

    уча́сникučásnyk, уча́сницяučásnycja

    a person who participates in or is skilled at some game

  2. One who participates.

    A human subject in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial

    a research participant

    In this study, participants were randomly assigned to either a control arm or a treatment arm.

Examples

88 sentences
  1. How were participants selected?

    Як обрали учасників? — deniko

  2. All the participants seemed to agree.

  3. Several participants were from other countries.

  4. Most of the participants were young.

  5. Most of the participants were women.

    ruБольшая часть участников были женщинами. — Wezel

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Deutsch
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Origin

From stem of particip(ate) + -ant, borrowed from Middle French participant, from Latin par

From stem of particip(ate) + -ant, borrowed from Middle French participant, from Latin participāns, present participle of participō; see participate. Displaced native Old English dǣlnimend (literally “part taker”).

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Forms

plural: participants
Singularparticipant
Pluralparticipants

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who takes part in an activity:player
  • a person who participates in or is skilled at some game:player

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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