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Character

noun

1.

An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story). Synonyms: fictional character, fictitious character.

2.

A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something. Synonyms: lineament, quality. "The radical character of our demands"

3.

The inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions. Synonyms: fiber, fibre.

4.

An actor's portrayal of someone in a play. Synonyms: part, persona, role, theatrical role.

5.

A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities). Synonyms: case, eccentric, type. "A strange character" , "A friendly eccentric" , "The capable type" , "A mental case"

6.

Good repute.

7.

A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability. Synonyms: character reference, reference.

8.

A written symbol that is used to represent speech. Synonyms: grapheme, graphic symbol.

9.

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

verb

(past & past part. charactered)

1.

Engrave or inscribe characters on.

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"Character" Quotes from Famous Books

... mankind of indulging a wicked disposition, when they have been so desirous of imitating laws that are to them foreign and evil in themselves, rather than following laws of their own that are of a better character, or else our accusers must leave off their spite against us. Nor are we guilty of any envious behavior towards them, when we honor our own legislator, and believe what he, by his prophetic authority, hath taught us concerning God. For though ...

— Against Apion • Flavius Josephus

... gains neither character nor influence by abandoning good manners. It may indeed make itself disagreeable and annoying, and so silence opposition, as a polecat may effectually close the wood path which you had designed to take. It may be feared, and in the same way as that animal—feared and despised. But ...

— Ars Recte Vivende - Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" • George William Curtis

... solitary palmetto, with branchless stem and tufted crown, gives an African aspect to the scene. The eye soon tires of a landscape where every object appears angular and thorny; and upon this plain, not only are the trees of that character, but the plants,—even the very grass ...

— The White Chief - A Legend of Northern Mexico • Mayne Reid

... overnight in a barn there. Next morning I tried to bribe a boy to get me some food at the grocery store. I gave him a dollar. He never came back. I heard some men talking at the door of the barn about a suspicious character who had been seen skulking about. That decided me. I got out when night came and slipped under an empty fruit car which was being shunted on the siding. I got off yesterday, slipping away between a little village up the line and here. ...

— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson

... often sought indeed yet sought in vain not only by dramatists who have very [Footnote 1 Deflexit jam aliquantul im] seldom attained it but by authors of a very great diversity of type and culture. One who undertakes to personate a character belonging to an age not his own hardly ever fails of manifest anachronisms. The author finds it utterly impossible to fit the antique mask so closely as not now and then to show through its chinks his own more modern features, while this form of internal evidence ...

— De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream • Marcus Tullius Ciceronis

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