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character (enc)
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Character| Noun | 1. | character - an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"Aladdin - in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie Argonaut - (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece Babar - an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children Beatrice - the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy Beowulf - the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon Bluebeard - (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience James Bond, Bond - British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming Paul Bunyan, Bunyan - a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada; had a blue ox named Babe; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water" John Henry - hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill Cheshire cat - a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll Chicken Little - a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling Cinderella - a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince Colonel Blimp - a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low Dracula - fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker Don Quixote - the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical El Cid - the hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century Fagin - a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens; "Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets" Father Brown - a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton Faust, Faustus - an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge Frankenstein - the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses Frankenstein's monster, Frankenstein - the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation) Goofy - a cartoon character created by Walt Disney Gulliver - a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift Hamlet - the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father Iago - the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife Kilroy - a nonexistent person popularized by American servicemen during World War II; "Kilroy was here" King Lear, Lear - the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters Lilliputian - a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift Philip Marlowe, Marlowe - tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler Mother Goose - the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes Mr. Moto - Japanese sleuth created by John Marquand Othello - the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife Pangloss - an incurable optimist in Candide (a satire by Voltaire) Pantaloon - a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man Perry Mason - fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner | | | 2. | character - 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"attribute, dimension, property - a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" texture - the essential quality of something; "the texture of Neapolitan life" | | | 3. | character - 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 Spencertrait - a distinguishing feature of your personal nature personality - the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" spirit - a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character responsibleness, responsibility - a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility" | | | 4. | character - an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"heavy - a serious (or tragic) role in a play hero - the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem ingenue - the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play heroine - the main good female character in a work of fiction baddie, villain - the principle bad character in a film or work of fiction | | | 5. | character - 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"adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward | | | 6. | character - good repute; "he is a man of character" | | | 7. | character - 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" | | | 8. | character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"allograph - a variant form of a grapheme as `m' or `M' check character - a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission superscript, superior - a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character subscript, inferior - a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character ASCII character - any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers ligature - character consisting of two or more letters combined into one capital letter, majuscule, upper case, upper-case letter, capital - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" type - printed characters; "small type is hard to read" dagger, obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote blank, space - a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" phonetic symbol - a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound mathematical symbol - a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation rune, runic letter - any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance" pictograph - a graphic character used in picture writing radical - a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram | | | Verb | 1. | character - engrave or inscribe characters onengrave, inscribe, grave - carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner's name onto the trophy cup" | |
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