Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A character in a literary work.
- noun A person.
- noun A person of distinction. synonym: celebrity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person represented; a rôle or part assumed or played; a character.
- noun A person; an individual; especially, a man or woman of importance or distinction.
- noun Bodily form; external appearrance; person.
- noun Synonyms 2. Individual, etc. See
person .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
- noun Character assumed or represented.
- noun A notable or distinguished person; a conspicuous or peculiar character
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun : A
famous orimportant person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
- noun another word for person; a person not meriting identification
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One of these heroines was Andromache, the title personage of "The
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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."
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So far as egotism is concerned, he was clearly anticipated by the titled personage to whom
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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.
yarb commented on the word personage
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?
November 17, 2007
asativum commented on the word personage
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.
December 20, 2007