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character

noun

1 character

An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story):
— She is the main character in the novel.

synonyms: fictional character, fictitious character.

Roget 820: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, ... show more

Roget 83: nonconformity etc. 82; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness etc. adj.; exception, ... show more

Roget 7: state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect etc. (appearance) ... show more

2 character

A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something:
— The radical character of our demands.

synonyms: lineament, quality.

Roget 5: intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence, noumenon; essentialness etc. adj.; essential part, quintessence, ... show more

Dutch: karakter, kwaliteit
Polish: jakość

3 character

The inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions:
— Education has for its object the formation of character.

synonyms: fiber, fibre.

Dutch: personage, persoonlijkheid, aard, karakter
Polish: serce, temperament, usposobienie, charakter, duch, natura

4 character

An actor's portrayal of someone in a play.

synonyms: part, persona, role, theatrical role.

Roget 599: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, ... show more

Dutch: rol
Polish: kreacja, rola

5 character

A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities):
— A real character.
— A strange character.

synonyms: case, eccentric, type.

Roget 75: class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.    kind, sort, genus, ... show more

Roget 561: letter; character; hieroglyphic etc. (writing) 590; type etc. (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ... show more

Dutch: buitenbeentje, geitebreier, geitenbreier, knakker, koekebakker, koekenbakker, krotenkoker, portret, snuiter, type ... show more
Polish: figura, osobnik, typ, typek

6 character

Good repute.

7 character

A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability:
— Requests for character references are all too often answered evasively.

synonyms: character reference, reference.

Polish: referencje

8 character

A written symbol that is used to represent speech:
— The Greek alphabet has 24 characters.

synonyms: graph, grapheme, graphic symbol.

Dutch: letter, teken, karakter, grafeem
Polish: grafem

9 character

genetics An attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes.

verb

1 character

Engrave or inscribe characters on.


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