personage

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Noun

personage (plural personages)

1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A famous or important person.
   • 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230

     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.

Usage notes

• In modern use, the noun personage is typically used with a partially redundant adjective, such as "notable" or "great"; as such, it may fairly be said to mean simply "person".

Translations

A famous or important person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人物 (rénwù)

  Min Nan: 人物 (jîn-bu̍t)

• Dutch: personage (nl)
• French: personnage (fr) m

• German: Persönlichkeit (de) f
• Japanese: 人物 (じんぶつ, jinbutsu)
• Manx: ard-phersoon (gv) m
• Norwegian: personasje (no) m
• Spanish: personaje (es) m

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Pronunciation

Hyphenation: per‧so‧na‧ge

Noun

personage n (plural personages)

1. Character in a work of fiction.

   Iago is een personage in Shakespeares Othello.

   Iago is a character in Shakespeare's Othello.