Online English Dictionary

character

Definition

character [noun]

1. an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"

2. a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"

3. the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer

4. an actor′s portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"

5. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"

6. good repute; "he is a man of character"

7. 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"

8. a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"

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

character [verb]

1. engrave or inscribe characters on

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Synonyms

noun
nature, disposition, quality, personality, personage, sort, type, role

handwriting, letter, figure, symbol, sign, mark, type, cipher, rune, hieroglyph, ideograph