fictional character
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈfɪkʃənl ˈkɛrɪktər/
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personaje
- Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
- create fictional characters
- understand fictional characters
- relationships between fictional characters
And today our topic is, are they gay fictional characters?
- And today our topic is, are they gay fictional characters?
- Well, yes, you can certainly do things with a fictional character that you can't do in your real life.
- And insofar as they, insofar as they do so, Jordan Peterson has described God as the ultimate fictional character.
Examples
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What kind of difference do you think exposure to a fictional character like Mandy can make?
Blog text (7) -
Thor is a fictional character who flies through outer space.
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Charlie is a fictional character in a movie.
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Do you want a fictional character?
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You see, I fell in love with one of my fictional characters.
Fiction book (1997) -
Name a fictional character that you find particularly inspiring and why.
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I've never met a fictional character before.
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Eugene Onegin is a fictional character and the girl of your dreams too.
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There is something wondrous about the human capacity for identification and allegiance toward fictional characters.
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Yet many precautions have to be taken when inferring the mental traits of fictional characters from their actions.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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3.2
A person in a story, play, or film
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A person who appears in a story, play, or historical account
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A person who is not real and appears in a story, book, or film
A person in a story who is amusingly odd and playful
How Real
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person invented by an author' is directly and compositionally derived from 'fictional' (not real; created for storytelling) modifying 'character' (a person or role). This adjective + noun structure is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Fictional character: The noun fictional character comes from two simple ideas: fictional means 'made up' and character means 'a person in a story'. Imagine an author creating a person on the page who only lives in the story, so the phrase means 'a person invented for a story'.