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character Definition

• (n) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
• (n) 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"
• (n) the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer
• (n) an actor''s portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"
• (n) 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"
• (n) good repute; "he is a man of character"
• (n) 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 to often answered evasively"
• (n) a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
• (v) engrave or inscribe characters on

character Synonyms

• case
• character
• character reference
• eccentric
• fiber
• fibre
• fictional character
• fictitious character
• grapheme
• graphic symbol
• lineament
• part
• persona
• quality
• reference
• role
• theatrical role
• type