CHARACTER as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
   Synonym(s)
   • fiber (what does fiber mean?)
   • fibre (what does fibre mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • education has for its object the formation of character- Herbert Spencer
   Hypernyms(s) character is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • trait (what does trait mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • spirit (what does spirit mean?)
2. Meaning
   • a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
   Synonym(s)
   • lineament (what does lineament mean?)
   • quality (what does quality mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • each town has a quality all its own
   • the radical character of our demands
   Hypernyms(s) character is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • property (what does property mean?)
   • attribute (what does attribute mean?)
   • dimension (what does dimension mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • texture (what does texture mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • characterize (what does characterize mean?)
   • characterise (what does characterise mean?)
   • qualify (what does qualify mean?)
   • characterize (what does characterize mean?)
   • characterise (what does characterise mean?)
   • characterize (what does characterize mean?)
   • characterise (what does characterise mean?)
   • qualify (what does qualify mean?)
   • characterize (what does characterize mean?)
   • characterise (what does characterise mean?)
   • qualify (what does qualify mean?)
   • characterize (what does characterize mean?)
   • characterise (what does characterise mean?)
   • qualify (what does qualify mean?)
   • restrict (what does restrict mean?)
3. Meaning
   • an actor’’s portrayal of someone in a play
   Synonym(s)
   • part (what does part mean?)
   • persona (what does persona mean?)
   • role (what does role mean?)
   • theatrical role (what does theatrical role mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • she played the part of Desdemona
   Hypernyms(s) character is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • portrayal (what does portrayal mean?)
   • characterization (what does characterization mean?)
   • enactment (what does enactment mean?)
   • personation (what does personation mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • bit part (what does bit part mean?)
   • minor role (what does minor role mean?)
   • heavy (what does heavy mean?)
   • hero (what does hero mean?)
   • ingenue (what does ingenue mean?)
   • title role (what does title role mean?)
   • name part (what does name part mean?)
   • heroine (what does heroine mean?)
   • villain (what does villain mean?)
   • baddie (what does baddie mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • impersonate (what does impersonate mean?)
   • portray (what does portray mean?)
   • impersonate (what does impersonate mean?)
   • embody (what does embody mean?)
   • be (what does be mean?)
   • personify (what does personify mean?)
4. Meaning
   • a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person’’s qualifications and dependability
   Synonym(s)
   • character reference (what does character reference mean?)
   • reference (what does reference mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • requests for character references are all to often answered evasively
   Hypernyms(s) character is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • recommendation (what does recommendation mean?)
   • testimonial (what does testimonial mean?)
   • good word (what does good word mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • qualify (what does qualify mean?)
   • characterize (what does characterize mean?)
   • characterise (what does characterise mean?)
5. Meaning
   • a written symbol that is used to represent speech
   Synonym(s)
   • grapheme (what does grapheme mean?)
   • graphic symbol (what does graphic symbol mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the Greek alphabet has 24 characters
   Hypernyms(s) character is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • written symbol (what does written symbol mean?)
   • printed symbol (what does printed symbol mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • allograph (what does allograph mean?)
   • check character (what does check character mean?)
   • superscript (what does superscript mean?)
   • superior (what does superior mean?)
   • subscript (what does subscript mean?)
   • inferior (what does inferior mean?)
   • ASCII character (what does ASCII character mean?)
   • ligature (what does ligature mean?)
   • capital (what does capital mean?)
   • capital letter (what does capital letter mean?)
   • upper case (what does upper case mean?)
   • upper-case letter (what does upper-case letter mean?)
   • majuscule (what does majuscule mean?)
   • small letter (what does small letter mean?)
   • lower case (what does lower case mean?)
   • lower-case letter (what does lower-case letter mean?)
   • minuscule (what does minuscule mean?)
   • type (what does type mean?)
   • percent sign (what does percent sign mean?)
   • percentage sign (what does percentage sign mean?)
   • asterisk (what does asterisk mean?)
   • star (what does star mean?)
   • dagger (what does dagger mean?)
   • obelisk (what does obelisk mean?)
   • double dagger (what does double dagger mean?)
   • double obelisk (what does double obelisk mean?)
   • dieses (what does dieses mean?)
   • letter (what does letter mean?)
   • letter of the alphabet (what does letter of the alphabet mean?)
   • alphabetic character (what does alphabetic character mean?)
   • space (what does space mean?)
   • blank (what does blank mean?)
   • phonetic symbol (what does phonetic symbol mean?)
   • mathematical symbol (what does mathematical symbol mean?)
   • rune (what does rune mean?)
   • runic letter (what does runic letter mean?)
   • pictograph (what does pictograph mean?)
   • ideogram (what does ideogram mean?)
   • ideograph (what does ideograph mean?)
   • radical (what does radical mean?)
   • stenograph (what does stenograph mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • character (what does character mean?)
6. Meaning
   • an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
   Synonym(s)
   • fictional character (what does fictional character mean?)
   • fictitious character (what does fictitious character mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • she is the main character in the novel
   Hypernyms(s) character is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • imaginary being (what does imaginary being mean?)
   • imaginary creature (what does imaginary creature mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • Aladdin (what does Aladdin mean?)
   • Argonaut (what does Argonaut mean?)
   • Babar (what does Babar mean?)
   • Beatrice (what does Beatrice mean?)
   • Beowulf (what does Beowulf mean?)
   • Bluebeard (what does Bluebeard mean?)
   • Bond (what does Bond mean?)
   • James Bond (what does James Bond mean?)
   • Bunyan (what does Bunyan mean?)
   • Paul Bunyan (what does Paul Bunyan mean?)
   • John Henry (what does John Henry mean?)
   • Cheshire cat (what does Cheshire cat mean?)
   • Chicken Little (what does Chicken Little mean?)
   • Cinderella (what does Cinderella mean?)
   • Colonel Blimp (what does Colonel Blimp mean?)
   • Dracula (what does Dracula mean?)
   • Don Quixote (what does Don Quixote mean?)
   • El Cid (what does El Cid mean?)
   • Fagin (what does Fagin mean?)
   • Falstaff (what does Falstaff mean?)
   • Sir John Falstaff (what does Sir John Falstaff mean?)
   • Father Brown (what does Father Brown mean?)
   • Faust (what does Faust mean?)
   • Faustus (what does Faustus mean?)
   • Frankenstein (what does Frankenstein mean?)
   • Frankenstein (what does Frankenstein mean?)
   • Frankenstein’s monster (what does Frankenstein’s monster mean?)
   • Goofy (what does Goofy mean?)
   • Gulliver (what does Gulliver mean?)
   • Hamlet (what does Hamlet mean?)
   • Horatio Hornblower (what does Horatio Hornblower mean?)
   • Captain Horatio Hornblower (what does Captain Horatio Hornblower mean?)
   • Iago (what does Iago mean?)
   • Inspector Maigret (what does Inspector Maigret mean?)
   • Commissaire Maigret (what does Commissaire Maigret mean?)
   • Kilroy (what does Kilroy mean?)
   • Lear (what does Lear mean?)
   • King Lear (what does King Lear mean?)
   • Lilliputian (what does Lilliputian mean?)
   • Marlowe (what does Marlowe mean?)
   • Philip Marlowe (what does Philip Marlowe mean?)
   • Micawber (what does Micawber mean?)
   • Wilkins Micawber (what does Wilkins Micawber mean?)
   • Mother Goose (what does Mother Goose mean?)
   • Mr. Moto (what does Mr. Moto mean?)
   • Othello (what does Othello mean?)
   • Pangloss (what does Pangloss mean?)
   • Pantaloon (what does Pantaloon mean?)
   • Perry Mason (what does Perry Mason mean?)
   • Peter Pan (what does Peter Pan mean?)
   • Pierrot (what does Pierrot mean?)
   • Pluto (what does Pluto mean?)
   • Huckleberry Finn (what does Huckleberry Finn mean?)
   • Huck Finn (what does Huck Finn mean?)
   • Ruritanian (what does Ruritanian mean?)
   • Tarzan (what does Tarzan mean?)
   • Tarzan of the Apes (what does Tarzan of the Apes mean?)
   • Tom Sawyer (what does Tom Sawyer mean?)
   • Uncle Tom (what does Uncle Tom mean?)
   • Uncle Sam (what does Uncle Sam mean?)
   • Sherlock Holmes (what does Sherlock Holmes mean?)
   • Holmes (what does Holmes mean?)
   • Simon Legree (what does Simon Legree mean?)
   • Sinbad the Sailor (what does Sinbad the Sailor mean?)
   • Sinbad (what does Sinbad mean?)
   • Snoopy (what does Snoopy mean?)
   • Ali Baba (what does Ali Baba mean?)
   • Emile (what does Emile mean?)
   • protagonist (what does protagonist mean?)
   • agonist (what does agonist mean?)
   • Houyhnhnm (what does Houyhnhnm mean?)
   • Little John (what does Little John mean?)
   • Little Red Ricing Hood (what does Little Red Ricing Hood mean?)
   • Raskolnikov (what does Raskolnikov mean?)
   • Rodya Raskolnikov (what does Rodya Raskolnikov mean?)
   • Robin Hood (what does Robin Hood mean?)
   • Robinson Crusoe (what does Robinson Crusoe mean?)
   • Rumpelstiltskin (what does Rumpelstiltskin mean?)
   • Shylock (what does Shylock mean?)
   • Tristan (what does Tristan mean?)
   • Tristram (what does Tristram mean?)
   • Iseult (what does Iseult mean?)
   • Scaramouch (what does Scaramouch mean?)
   • Scaramouche (what does Scaramouche mean?)
   • Svengali (what does Svengali mean?)
   • Todd (what does Todd mean?)
   • Sweeney Todd (what does Sweeney Todd mean?)
   • Trilby (what does Trilby mean?)
   • Walter Mitty (what does Walter Mitty mean?)
   • Yahoo (what does Yahoo mean?)
   • Arthur (what does Arthur mean?)
   • King Arthur (what does King Arthur mean?)
   • Galahad (what does Galahad mean?)
   • Sir Galahad (what does Sir Galahad mean?)
   • Gawain (what does Gawain mean?)
   • Sir Gawain (what does Sir Gawain mean?)
   • Guinevere (what does Guinevere mean?)
   • Guenevere (what does Guenevere mean?)
   • Lancelot (what does Lancelot mean?)
   • Sir Lancelot (what does Sir Lancelot mean?)
   • Merlin (what does Merlin mean?)
7. Meaning
   • a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
   Synonym(s)
   • case (what does case mean?)
   • eccentric (what does eccentric mean?)
   • type (what does type mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a real character
   • a strange character
   • a friendly eccentric
   • the capable type
   • a mental case
   Hypernyms(s) character is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • adult (what does adult mean?)
   • grownup (what does grownup mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • type (what does type mean?)
   • typecast (what does typecast mean?)
   • typify (what does typify mean?)
   • epitomize (what does epitomize mean?)
   • epitomise (what does epitomise mean?)
8. Meaning
   • good repute
   Usage Example(s)
   • he is a man of character
   Hypernyms(s) character is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • repute (what does repute mean?)
   • reputation (what does reputation mean?)

CHARACTER as VERB

1. Meaning
   • engrave or inscribe characters on
   Hypernyms(s) character is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • engrave (what does engrave mean?)
   • grave (what does grave mean?)
   • inscribe (what does inscribe mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • character (what does character mean?)
   • grapheme (what does grapheme mean?)
   • graphic symbol (what does graphic symbol mean?)