personage
English
Etymology
From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: per‧son‧age
Noun
personage (plural personages)
- A person, especially one who is famous or important.
- 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.
- 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230:
- The creation of corporate persons named after living people. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Character represented; external appearance; persona.
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Translations
a famous or important person
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Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French personnage.
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: per‧so‧na‧ge
Noun
personage n (plural personages)
- Character in a work of fiction.
- Iago is een personage in Shakespeares Othello.
- Iago is a character in Shakespeare's Othello.
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