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personage

English

Etymology

From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?p?s?n?d??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??s?n?d??/
  • Hyphenation: per?son?age

Noun

personage (plural personages)

  1. A person, especially one who is famous or important.
    • 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230:
      I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.
  2. The creation of corporate persons named after living people. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. Character represented; external appearance; persona.

Translations

Anagrams

  • one-pagers

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French personnage.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: per?so?na?ge

Noun

personage n (plural personages)

  1. Character in a work of fiction.

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personae

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p??(?)?s??nai/

Noun

personae

  1. plural of persona (alternative spelling of personæ).

Anagrams

  • open-arse

Latin

Noun

pers?nae

  1. genitive singular of pers?na
  2. dative singular of pers?na
  3. nominative plural of pers?na

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