Meaning

1 senses
  1. (obsolete, rare)Someone who performs something, such as a ritual; a performer.

Origin

From perform + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, and adjectives from verbs with

From perform + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, and adjectives from verbs with the senses of ‘doing (the action of the verb’)), possibly modelled after informant.

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Forms

plural: performants
Singularperformant
Pluralperformants

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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