prompter

Word Origin & History

1540s, agent noun from prompt (v.)). Earlier was promptator (mid-15c.).

The prompter read your lines, but everything has gone to pieces.

The prompter was dismissed, but the three actresses began to complain.

The prompter was at his post, but took no earthly notice of the scene.

She breathed heavily, and looked around as if for a prompter.

"She ought to marry the prompter or the box-keeper," said Nash.

The higher the state of civilization the prompter is everything done.

Necessity is the prompter of ingenuity, and the suggestion came from that source.

"Cue," said the prompter, close to her side, but she did not hear.

The prompter had dropped the book, and couldn't find the place.

"Give us our lines," he said to the prompter, as he went past.

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adj early, responsive

adjective. according to schedule