Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A character in a literary work.
- n. A person.
- n. A person of distinction. See Synonyms at celebrity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person represented; a rôle or part assumed or played; a character.
- n. A person; an individual; especially, a man or woman of importance or distinction.
- n. Bodily form; external appearrance; person.
- n. Synonyms 2. Individual, etc. See person.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
- n. Character assumed or represented.
- n. A notable or distinguished person; a conspicuous or peculiar character
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
- n. another word for person; a person not meriting identification
Etymologies
- Middle English, person, from Old French, from persone, person; see person. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One of these heroines was Andromache, the title personage of "The”
“I have clicked on "follow" and discover that the Twitter "personage" is in fact a website called Scandinavian Crime Fiction: your foray into Northern deviance.”
“Suppose you should have drawn your first breath among the _lower classes_, -- suppose it should have been your lot to crouch and bend, or be trodden under foot by some titled personage, whom in your heart you despised; what then?”
“So far as egotism is concerned, he was clearly anticipated by the titled personage to whom I have referred, who says of himself, "I am the first in the East, the first in the West, and the greatest philosopher in the Western world.”
“So far as egotism is concerned, he was clearly anticipated by the titled personage to whom”
“This noted personage is a Eutaw by birth, but forsook his own people and joined the Py-Euts, after he became a man, and by his prowess and bravery, acquired such an ascendency over the tribe of his adoption, as to become their principal chief.”
“link Perhaps the whole confusion over the identity, likeness, or existence of the Bard isn't due to the vagaries of historical evidence, but that what we know as the personage & works of William Shakespeare is merely the anthropic manifestation of some hitherto unidentified cultural principle of the universe itself, a la the Delta Green interpretation of Hastur.”
“My Ophelia, however, wasn't flighty in the slightest -- she was a Serious Kitty, and quite the royal personage, which is what led to my friend JB giving her the nickname of "The Princess Ophelia Ouspenskaya Buttz" a little while after we got her.”
“Your 'lamprey' was right on the money, and I agree with Donna as well - I feel the same way about that certain personage.”
“A titled personage is still mainly an inconceivable being to us; he is like a goblin or a fairy in a storybook.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘personage’.
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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"Words, words, words."
abase, abject, abstruse, adjutant, altercation, altruistic, angst, anodyne, anomie, ape, apprehensive, aquiline and 310 more...
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My VOCAB
MY VOCAB
that will further enhance my English skills and so on...personage, connoisseur, regent, decimate, append, equivocal, bolster, engender, vitiate, torment, blithe
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movies
contains words i learnt while watching movies
Tweets
Looking for tweets for personage.
asativum An easy way to sort it out: The parson is the personage of the parsonage, but not every person in a parsonage is a personage. Dec 20, 2007
yarb Is there a difference between a personage and a person? Can I be one and not the other, i.e. are all personages people and all people personaages? And how many personages reside in parsonages? Nov 16, 2007