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character [n]

1)	an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"

Synonyms :

fictional_character fictitious_character

See Also:

imaginary_being aladdin argonaut babar beatrice beowulf bluebeard bond bunyan john_henry cheshire_cat chicken_little cinderella colonel_blimp dracula don_quixote el_cid fagin falstaff father_brown faust frankenstein frankenstein goofy gulliver hamlet captain_horatio_hornblower iago commissaire_maigret kilroy king_lear lilliputian marlowe micawber mother_goose mr._moto othello pangloss pantaloon perry_mason peter_pan pierrot pluto huck_finn ruritanian tarzan tom_sawyer uncle_tom uncle_sam holmes simon_legree sinbad snoopy ali_baba emile agonist houyhnhnm little_john little_red_ricing_hood raskolnikov robin_hood robinson_crusoe rumpelstiltskin shylock tristan iseult scaramouch svengali sweeney_todd trilby walter_mitty yahoo arthur galahad gawain guenevere lancelot merlin

2)	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"

Synonyms :

lineament quality

3)	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 Spencer

Synonyms :

fiber fibre

4)	an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"

Synonyms :

part persona role theatrical_role

See Also:

characterization impersonate impersonate be bit_part heavy hero ingenue name_part heroine baddie

5)	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"

Synonyms :

case eccentric type

See Also:

adult type epitomise

6)	good repute; "he is a man of character"

Synonyms :

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reputation

7)	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"

Synonyms :

character_reference reference

See Also:

good_word characterise

8)	a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"

Synonyms :

grapheme graphic_symbol

character [v]

1)	engrave or inscribe characters on

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engrave

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

An atom in a character repertoire.

Compare with glyph.

(1998-10-18)

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