Standard Lemma guide

participant

adj · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • UK: /pɑːˈtɪsɪpənt/
  • US: /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/
  • US: /pəɹˈtɪsəpənt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: P AA0 R T IH1 S AH0 P AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

One who participates.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Near-synonyms: entrant, partaker
  • All participants must adhere to the rules of the competition.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: participator, entrant, partaker

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

One who participates.

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, sciences

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: participator, entrant, partaker

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: subject, person

4

noun

Meaning 4

someone who takes part in an activity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: associate

Narrower terms: attendant, attender, attendee, meeter, discussant, bride, groom, bridegroom, masquerader, masker, masquer, partaker, sharer, player, retreatant

5

noun

Meaning 5

a person who participates in or is skilled at some game

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: player

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: contestant

Narrower terms: ballplayer, baseball player, billiard player, bowler, card player, chess player, dart player, football player, footballer, golfer, golf player, linksman, grandmaster, hockey player, ice-hockey player, lacrosse player, most valuable player, MVP, playmaker, pool player, scorer, seeded player, seed, server, shooter, soccer player, stringer, tennis player, volleyball player

History

Etymology

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”).

Across languages

Translations

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: pjesëmarrës — one who participates
  • Arabic: مُشَارِك (mušārik) — one who participates
  • Arabic: مُشَارِكَة (mušārika) — one who participates
  • Armenian: մասնակից (masnakicʻ) — one who participates
  • Azerbaijani: iştirakçı — one who participates
  • Bashkir: ҡатнашыусы (qatnaşıwsı) — one who participates
  • Belarusian: удзе́льнік (udzjélʹnik) — one who participates
  • Belarusian: удзе́льніца (udzjélʹnica) — one who participates
  • Belarusian: уча́снік (učásnik) — one who participates
  • Belarusian: уча́сніца (učásnica) — one who participates
  • Bulgarian: уча́стник (učástnik) — one who participates
  • Bulgarian: уча́стничка (učástnička) — one who participates
  • Bulgarian: уча́стница (učástnica) — one who participates
  • Burmese: ပါဝင်သူ (pawangsu) — one who participates
  • Catalan: participant — one who participates
  • Cebuano: sumasalmot — one who participates
  • Cebuano: umaayap — one who participates
  • Cebuano: partisipante — one who participates
  • Chinese Mandarin: 參加者 /参加者 (cānjiāzhě) — one who participates
  • Chinese Mandarin: 參與者 /参与者 (cānyùzhě) — one who participates
  • Czech: účastník — one who participates
  • Czech: účastnice — one who participates
  • Danish: deltager — one who participates
  • Dutch: deelnemer — one who participates
  • Dutch: participant — one who participates
  • Esperanto: partoprenanto — one who participates
  • Estonian: osaleja — one who participates
  • Estonian: osavõtja — one who participates
  • Finnish: osanottaja — one who participates
  • Finnish: osallistuja — one who participates
  • French: participant — one who participates
  • French: participante — one who participates
  • West-Frisian: dielnimmer — one who participates
  • West-Frisian: meidogger — one who participates
  • West-Frisian: partisipant — one who participates
  • Galician: participante — one who participates
  • Georgian: მონაწილე (monac̣ile) — one who participates
  • German: Teilnehmer — one who participates
  • German: Teilnehmerin — one who participates
  • Greek: συμμέτοχος (symmétochos) — one who participates
  • Greek: μετέχων (metéchon) — one who participates
  • Hebrew: מִשׁתַתֵף (mishtatéf) — one who participates
  • Hindi: भागी (bhāgī) — one who participates
  • Hindi: भागिनी (bhāginī) — one who participates
  • Hungarian: résztvevő — one who participates
  • Icelandic: þátttakandi — one who participates
  • Indonesian: peserta — one who participates
  • Indonesian: partisipan — one who participates
  • Irish: rannpháirtí — one who participates
  • Italian: partecipante — one who participates
  • Italian: che partecipa — one who participates
  • Japanese: 参加者 (sankasha) — one who participates
  • Japanese: 関与者 (kan'yosha) — one who participates
  • Kazakh: қатысушы (qatysuşy) — one who participates
  • Kazakh: қатынасушы (qatynasuşy) — one who participates
  • Khmer: អ្នកចូលរួម (nĕək coul ruəm) — one who participates
  • Korean: 참가자 (chamgaja) — one who participates
  • Northern Kurdish: beşdar — one who participates
  • Northern Kurdish: pişkdar — one who participates
  • Northern Kurdish: tevlîbûyî — one who participates
  • Kyrgyz: катышуучу (katışuucu) — one who participates
  • Lao: ຜູ້ເຂົ້າຮ່ວມ (phū khao hūam) — one who participates
  • Latin: particeps — one who participates
  • Latvian: dalībnieks — one who participates
  • Latvian: dalībniece — one who participates
  • Lithuanian: dalyvis — one who participates
  • Lithuanian: dalyvė — one who participates
  • Macedonian: учесник (učesnik) — one who participates
  • Macedonian: учесничка (učesnička) — one who participates
  • Malay: peserta — one who participates
  • Malayalam: പങ്കാളി (paṅkāḷi) — one who participates
  • Maltese: parteċipant — one who participates
  • Māori: kaiuru — one who participates
  • Mongolian: оролцогч (orolcogč) — one who participates
  • Norwegian Bokmål: deltaker — one who participates
  • Norwegian Bokmål: deltager — one who participates
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: deltakar — one who participates
  • Occitan: participant — one who participates
  • Old English: dǣlnimend — one who participates
  • Iranian Persian: شِرْکَتکُنَنْدِه (šerkat-konande) — one who participates
  • Iranian Persian: شَریک (šarik) — one who participates
  • Polish: uczestnik — one who participates
  • Polish: uczestniczka — one who participates
  • Portuguese: participante — one who participates
  • Romanian: participant — one who participates
  • Romanian: participantă — one who participates
  • Russian: уча́стник (učástnik) — one who participates
  • Russian: уча́стница (učástnica) — one who participates
  • Serbo-Croatian: у̀чеснӣк — one who participates
  • Serbo-Croatian: у̀чесница — one who participates
  • Serbo-Croatian: ùčesnīk — one who participates
  • Serbo-Croatian: ùčesnica — one who participates
  • Slovak: účastník — one who participates
  • Slovak: účastníčka — one who participates
  • Slovene: udeleženec — one who participates
  • Slovene: udeleženka — one who participates
  • Spanish: participante — one who participates
  • Spanish: partícipe — one who participates
  • Swedish: deltagare — one who participates
  • Tajik: иштирокчӣ (ištirokči) — one who participates
  • Tajik: шарӣк (šarik) — one who participates
  • Tajik: шарик (šarik) — one who participates
  • Tamil: பங்கேற்பாளர் (paṅkēṟpāḷar) — one who participates
  • Tatar: катнашучы (qatnaşuçı) — one who participates
  • Telugu: పాల్గొను వ్యక్తి (pālgonu vyakti) — one who participates
  • Thai: ผู้เข้าร่วม (pûu-kâo-rûuam) — one who participates
  • Turkish: katılımcı — one who participates
  • Turkish: iştirakçı — one who participates
  • Turkish: müşterekçi — one who participates
  • Turkmen: gatnaşyjy — one who participates
  • Udmurt: пыриськись (pyriśkiś) — one who participates
  • Udmurt: участник (ućastńik) — one who participates
  • Ukrainian: уча́сник (učásnyk) — one who participates
  • Ukrainian: уча́сниця (učásnycja) — one who participates
  • Urdu: شَرِیک (śarīk) — one who participates
  • Uyghur: قاتناشقۇچى (qatnashquchi) — one who participates
  • Uzbek: qatnashuvchi — one who participates
  • Vietnamese: người tham gia — one who participates
  • Welsh: cyfrannog — one who participates
  • Welsh: cyfrannwr — one who participates
Real reading context

participant in complete knowledge articles