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Another word for personage

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Noun

  1. A person portrayed in fiction or drama

      1. The character represented by the voice of the speaker in a literary work.
      2. The characters in a dramatic or literary work.
      3. The role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one's public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self.
      1. The combination of mental characteristics and behavior that distinguishes a person or group.
      2. The distinguishing nature of something.
      3. Moral strength; integrity:
    See also:

    real

  2. A member of the human race

      1. A part of humans regarded as immaterial, immortal, separable from the body at death, capable of moral judgment, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.
      2. This part of a human when disembodied after death.
      3. In Aristotelian philosophy, an animating or vital principle inherent in living things and endowing them in various degrees with the potential to grow and reproduce, to move and respond to stimuli (as in the case of animals), and to think rationally (as in the case of humans).
      1. A living human. Often used in combination:
      2. An individual of specified character:
      3. The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.
      1. A social gathering especially for pleasure or amusement:
      2. A group of people who have gathered to participate in an activity:
      3. A group of soldiers selected for a duty or mission:
      1. Liable or subject to death; not immortal:
      2. Of or relating to humans as being subject to death:
      3. Causing death; fatal:
      1. An adult male human.
      2. A human regardless of sex or age; a person.
      3. A human or an adult male human belonging to a specific occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination:
      1. The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
      2. The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.
      3. Living organisms considered as a group:
      1. Of or relating to an individual, especially a single human:
      2. By or for one person:
      3. Existing as a distinct entity; separate:
      1. A member of the primate genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other apes by a large brain and the capacity for speech.
      2. A person:
      3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of humans:
      1. Used as a disparaging term for a gay man or lesbian.
      1. A living being, especially an animal:
      2. A human.
      3. An imaginary or fantastical being:
      1. The entire material or physical structure of an organism, especially of a human or animal.
      2. The physical aspect of a person as opposed to the spirit; the flesh.
      3. A corpse or carcass.
      1. The state or quality of having existence:
      2. The totality of all things that exist:
      3. A person:
    See also:

    beings

  3. An important, influential person

    See also:

    important

  4. A famous person

      1. Widely recognized or acclaimed; famous:
      2. Of or involving one that is widely recognized or acclaimed:
      1. The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are peculiar to a specific person.
      2. The totality of behavioral traits that are peculiar to a specific nonhuman animal:
      3. The totality of qualities that distinguish a group, organization, or place:
      1. Worthy of note or notice; remarkable:
      2. Characterized by excellence or distinction; eminent:
      3. Perceptible; noticeable:
      1. A word or words by which an entity is designated and distinguished from others.
      2. A word or group of words used to describe or evaluate, often disparagingly:
      3. Representation or repute, as opposed to reality:
      1. An object, such as a celestial body, that gives light.
      2. In astrology, one of the brightest celestial objects, such as the sun, moon, or bright planets.
      3. A person who inspires others or achieves eminence in a field.
      1. A large carnivorous feline mammal (Panthera leo) of Africa and northwest India, having a short tawny coat, a tufted tail, and, in the male, a heavy mane around the neck and shoulders.
      2. A mountain lion.
      3. A very brave person.
      1. In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
      2. A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life:
      3. A person noted for special achievement in a particular field:
      1. One who is widely known and of great popular interest.
      2. Fame or popular renown.
    See also:

    knowledge

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Another word for personage

Noun

  1. An individual

    See also:

    woman

    person

    man

  2. A notable

    See also:

    success

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Sentence Examples

  • The more exalted the personage the longer, as a rule, is the body kept before cremation.

  • The Wizard was also most heartily welcomed by the straw man, who was an important personage in the Land of Oz.

  • Constant, who had met Madame de Stael at Lausanne in 1794, followed her in the next year to Paris, where he rapidly became a personage in the moderate republican circle which met in her salon; and by 1796 he had established with her intimate relations, which, in spite of many storms, endured for ten years.

  • At least Augustine speaks of such a personage, and the Fihrist also has knowledge of a chief of all Manichaeans.

  • In no European country is there any personage to whom the president can be said to correspond.

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