The most popular online dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English
performance
noun [C or U] (ACTIVITY) /pəˈfɔː.məns/
/pɚˈfɔːr-/ Definition
1. Definition
2. Practise
B2 how well a person, machine, etc. does a piece of work or an activity: Some athletes take drugs to improve their performance. High-performance cars (= those that are fast, powerful, and easy to control) are the most expensive. This was a very impressive performance by the young player, who scored 14 points within the first ten minutes.Acting and actsDealing with things or people
(Definition of performance noun (ACTIVITY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Focus on the pronunciation of performance
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Acting and acts, but you might be interested in these topics from the Doing and achieving topic area:
- Abstaining and refraining
- Avoiding action
- Becoming better
- Cancelling and interrupting
- Competing and contending (non-sporting)
- Coping and not coping
- Delaying and wasting time
- Describing the leading position
- Efficient and effective
- Expressions telling people to hurry up
- Failing and doing badly
- Failures
- Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
- Hesitating
- Higher and lower points of achievement
- Hurrying and doing things quickly
- Making progress and advancing
- Making things better
- Performing a function
- Potential
- Reacting and responding
- Repeating an action
- Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- Success and achievements
- Successful (things or people)
- Surpassing in quality or number
- Taking part and getting involved
- Trying and making an effort
- Unsuccessful (people and things)
- Waiting
- Ways of achieving things
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
More Results for “performance”
SMART Thesaurus: Acting and acts
Synonyms and related words:
- (your) every move idiom
- -ant suffix
- -ation suffix
- -er suffix (PERFORMER)
- act noun (THING DONE)
- act verb (BEHAVE)
- act verb (DO SOMETHING)
- act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
- agency noun (ACTIONS)
- be up to sth idiom
- beat verb (DEFEAT)
- execution noun (ACTION)
- exploit noun
- fait accompli noun
- fling yourself into sth phrasal verb
- manoeuvring noun (CLEVER ACTION)
- operation noun (WORK)
- step noun (STAGE)
- stop the rot idiom
- up to preposition (DOING)
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
