character
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(verb) engrave or inscribe characters on |
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Related Words: engrave, grave, inscribe |
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(noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions: "educaton has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer |
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Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
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Related Words: spirit, trait |
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(noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" |
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Synonyms: part, persona, role, theatrical role |
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Related Words: bit part, enactment, heavy, hero, heroine, ingenue, minor role, name part, portrayal, title role, villain |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: character reference, reference |
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Related Words: good word, recommendation, testimonial |
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(noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
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Synonyms: grapheme, graphic symbol |
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Related Words: ASCII character, allograph, alphabetic character, asterisk, blank, capital, dagger, dieses, double dagger, double obelisk, ideogram, ideograph, inferior, letter, letter of the alphabet, lower case, lower-case letter, mathematical symbol, monogram, obelisk, percent sign, percentage sign, phonetic symbol, pictograph, printed symbol, radical, rune, runic letter, small letter, space, star, subscript, superior, superscript, type, upper case, upper-case letter, written symbol |
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(noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" |
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Synonyms: case, eccentric, type |
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Related Words: adult, grownup |
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(noun) good repute; "he is a man of character" |
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Related Words: reputation, repute |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: lineament, quality |
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Related Words: attribute, dimension, property, texture |
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(noun) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel" |
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Synonyms: fictional character, fictitious character |
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Related Words: Aladdin, Argonaut, Babar, Beatrice, Bluebeard, Bunyan, Cinderella, Don Quixote, El Cid, Emile, Fagin, Falstaff, Faust, Faustus, Gulliver, Holmes, Houyhnhnm, Huckleberry Finn, Iseult, John Henry, Liliputian, Lilliputian, Little John, Little Red Ricing Hood, Mother Goose, Pangloss, Pantaloon, Paul Bunyan, Pierrot, Raskolnikov, Robin Hood, Rodya Raskolnikov, Rumpelstiltskin, Sherlock Holmes, Sir John Falstaff, Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Tom Sawyer, Tristan, Tristram, Uncle Sam, Uncle Tom, Yahoo, imaginary being, imaginary creature, protagonist |
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