Personage
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A person, especially one who is famous or important.
"I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews."
- 2 a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events wordnet
- 3 A character (in a film, book, play, etc).
- 4 another word for person; a person not meriting identification wordnet
- 5 The creation of corporate persons named after living people.
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- 6 Character represented; external appearance; persona.
"But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon, What ſtature wields he, and what perſonage?"
Example
More examples"Jude, though he already had his doubts about this gentleman's medicines, felt him to be unquestionably a travelled personage, and one who might be a trustworthy source of information on matters not strictly professional."
Etymology
From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage; by surface analysis, person + -age (compare French suffix -age).
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