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English noun: character | |||
| 1. | character (person) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) | ||
| Samples | She is the main character in the novel. | ||
| Synonyms | fictional character, fictitious character | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | imaginary being, imaginary creature | ||
| Instance hyponym | agonist, Aladdin, Ali Baba, Argonaut, Arthur, Babar, Beatrice, Beowulf, Bluebeard, Bond, Brer Rabbit, Bunyan, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Cheshire cat, Chicken Little, Cinderella, Colonel Blimp, Commissaire Maigret, Don Quixote, Dracula, El Cid, Emile, Fagin, Falstaff, Father Brown, Faust, Faustus, Frankenstein, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, Galahad, Gawain, Goofy, Guenevere, Guinevere, Gulliver, Hamlet, Holmes, Horatio Hornblower, Houyhnhnm, Huck Finn, Huckleberry Finn, Iago, Inspector Maigret, Iseult, Isolde, James Bond, John Henry, Kilroy, King Arthur, King Lear, Lancelot, Lear, Lilliputian, Little John, Little Red Riding Hood, Marlowe, Merlin, Micawber, Mother Goose, Mr. Moto, Othello, Pangloss, Pantaloon, Paul Bunyan, Perry Mason, Peter Pan, Philip Marlowe, Pied Piper, Pied Piper of Hamelin, Pierrot, Pluto, protagonist, Raskolnikov, Rip van Winkle, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Rodya Raskolnikov, Rumpelstiltskin, Ruritanian, Scaramouch, Scaramouche, Sherlock Holmes, Shylock, Simon Legree, Sinbad, Sinbad the Sailor, Sir Galahad, Sir Gawain, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Lancelot, Snoopy, Svengali, Sweeney Todd, Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Todd, Tom Sawyer, Trilby, Tristan, Tristram, Uncle Remus, Uncle Sam, Uncle Tom, Walter Mitty, Wilkins Micawber, Yahoo | ||
| 2. | character (cognition) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | ||
| Samples | Each town has a quality all its own. The radical character of our demands. | ||
| Synonyms | lineament, quality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | attribute, dimension, property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | texture | ||
| 3. | character (attribute) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | ||
| Samples | Education has for its object the formation of character. | ||
| Synonyms | fiber, fibre | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | trait | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | spirit | ||
| Part holonym | integrity, responsibility, responsibleness, thoughtfulness | ||
| Part meronym | personality | ||
| 4. | character (cognition) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | ||
| Samples | She played the part of Desdemona. | ||
| Synonyms | part, persona, role, theatrical role | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | characterization, enactment, personation, portrayal | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | baddie, bit part, heavy, hero, heroine, ingenue, minor role, name part, title role, villain | ||
| 5. | character (person) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | ||
| Samples | A real character. A strange character. A friendly eccentric. The capable type. A mental case. | ||
| Synonyms | case, eccentric, type | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | adult, grownup | ||
| 6. | character (state) good repute | ||
| Samples | He is a man of character. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | reputation, repute | ||
| 7. | character (communication) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | ||
| Samples | Requests for character references are all too often answered evasively. | ||
| Synonyms | character reference, reference | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | good word, recommendation, testimonial | ||
| 8. | character (communication) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | ||
| Samples | The Greek alphabet has 24 characters. | ||
| Synonyms | grapheme, graphic symbol | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | printed symbol, written symbol | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | allograph, alphabetic character, ASCII character, asterisk, blank, capital, capital letter, check character, dagger, diesis, double dagger, double obelisk, ideogram, ideograph, inferior, letter, letter of the alphabet, ligature, lower-case letter, lowercase, majuscule, mathematical symbol, minuscule, obelisk, percent sign, percentage sign, phonetic symbol, pictograph, radical, rune, runic letter, small letter, space, star, stenograph, subscript, superior, superscript, type, upper-case letter, uppercase | ||
| 9. | character (attribute) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | attribute | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | unit character | ||
| Domain category | genetic science, genetics | ||
English verb: character | |||
| 1. | character (contact) engrave or inscribe characters on | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | engrave, grave, inscribe, scratch | ||
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