Cast Noun Bre Kɑːst Kæst Performs/Perform Brilliantly Members

• the whole cast performs/perform brilliantly.
• members of the cast
• an all-star cast (= including many well-known actors)
• the supporting cast (= not the main actors, but the others)

cast

1. all the people who act in a play or film/movie
• The whole cast performs/perform brilliantly.
• members of the cast
• an all-star cast (= including many well-known actors)
• the supporting cast (= not the main actors, but the others)
• a cast list
2. an object that is made by pouring hot liquid metal, etc. into a mould (= a specially shaped container)
3. a shaped container used to make an object
• synonym mould
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/mould_1
4. the way that a person or thing is or appears
• He has an unusual cast of mind.
• I disliked the arrogant cast to her mouth.
5. an act of throwing something, especially a fishing line
• = plaster cast
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/plaster-cast
• Her leg's in a cast.

Extra Examples

• The play has a large cast of characters.
• Who is in the cast?
• The colours he wore emphasized the olive cast of his skin.

Word Origin

• noun senses 2 to 6 Middle English: from Old Norse kasta ‘to cast or throw’. noun sense 1 mid 17th cent.: a special use of the original meaning of cast,in sense (11) of the verb.