character

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I - noun

1. an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) (Freq. 16)
- she is the main character in the novel
• Syn:
fictional character, fictitious character
• Hypernyms:
imaginary being, imaginary creature
• Instance Hyponyms:
Aladdin, Argonaut, Babar, Beatrice, Beowulf,
Bluebeard, Bond, James Bond, Brer Rabbit, Bunyan, Paul Bunyan,
John Henry, Cheshire cat, Chicken Little, Cinderella, Colonel Blimp, Dracula,
Don Quixote, El Cid, Fagin, Falstaff, Sir John Falstaff, Father Brown,
Faust, Faustus, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, Goofy, Gulliver,
Hamlet, Horatio Hornblower, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Iago, Inspector Maigret, Commissaire Maigret,
Kilroy, Lear, King Lear, Lilliputian, Marlowe, Philip Marlowe,
Micawber, Wilkins Micawber, Mother Goose, Mr. Moto, Othello, Pangloss,
Pantaloon, Perry Mason, Peter Pan, Pied Piper, Pied Piper of Hamelin, Pierrot,
Pluto, Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn, Rip van Winkle, Ruritanian, Tarzan,
Tarzan of the Apes, Tom Sawyer, Uncle Remus, Uncle Tom, Uncle Sam, Sherlock Holmes,
Holmes, Simon Legree, Sinbad the Sailor, Sinbad, Snoopy, Ali Baba,
Emile, protagonist, agonist, Houyhnhnm, Little John, Little Red Riding Hood,
Raskolnikov, Rodya Raskolnikov, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Rumpelstiltskin, Shylock,
Tristan, Tristram, Iseult, Isolde, Scaramouch, Scaramouche,
Svengali, Todd, Sweeney Todd, Trilby, Walter Mitty, Yahoo,
Arthur, King Arthur, Galahad, Sir Galahad, Gawain, Sir Gawain,
Guinevere, Guenevere, Lancelot, Sir Lancelot, Merlin
2. a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something (Freq. 12)
- each town has a quality all its own
- the radical character of our demands
• Syn:
quality, lineament
• Derivationally related forms:
characteristic, characterize, characterise, qualify (for: quality)
• Hypernyms:
property, attribute, dimension
• Hyponyms:
texture
3. the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions (Freq. 11)
- "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer
• Syn:
fiber, fibre
• Hypernyms:
trait
• Hyponyms:
spirit
• Part Holonyms:
personality
• Part Meronyms:
thoughtfulness, responsibility, responsibleness, integrity
4. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play (Freq. 9)
- she played the part of Desdemona
• Syn:
role, theatrical role, part, persona
• Derivationally related forms:
impersonate (for: persona), personify (for: persona)
• Hypernyms:
portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation
• Hyponyms:
bit part, minor role, heavy, hero, ingenue,
title role, name part, heroine, villain, baddie
5. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) (Freq. 4)
- a real character
- a strange character
- a friendly eccentric
- the capable type
- a mental case
• Syn:
eccentric, type, case
• Derivationally related forms:
typic (for: type), type (for: type), typify (for: type)
• Hypernyms:
adult, grownup
6. good repute (Freq. 1)
- he is a man of character
• Hypernyms:
repute, reputation
7. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability (Freq. 1)
- requests for character references are all too often answered evasively
• Syn:
reference, character reference
• Derivationally related forms:
characterise
• Hypernyms:
recommendation, testimonial, good word
8. a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- the Greek alphabet has 24 characters
• Syn:
grapheme, graphic symbol
• Hypernyms:
written symbol, printed symbol
• Hyponyms:
allograph, check character, superscript, superior, subscript,
inferior, ASCII character, ligature, capital, capital letter, uppercase,
upper-case letter, majuscule, small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule,
type, percent sign, percentage sign, asterisk, star, dagger,
obelisk, double dagger, double obelisk, diesis, letter, letter of the alphabet,
alphabetic character, space, blank, phonetic symbol, mathematical symbol, rune,
runic letter, pictograph, ideogram, ideograph, radical, stenograph
9. (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
• Topics:
genetics, genetic science
• Hypernyms:
attribute
• Hyponyms:
unit character

II - verb

engrave or inscribe characters on
• Hypernyms:
scratch, engrave, grave, inscribe
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  grapheme, graphic symbol, reference, character reference, eccentric, type, case, role, theatrical role, part, persona, fiber, fibre, quality, lineament, fictional character, fictitious character