personage
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈpɜrsənɪdʒ/
- Formal
:
personaje
- If you could have dinner with one historical personage, living or dead, who would it be?
- historical personage
- important personage
- no less a personage
He says if some people think you to be an important personage, distrust yourself.
- He says if some people think you to be an important personage, distrust yourself.
- His important personage is now only a has been.
Examples
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Still, I respected my father as the sort of white-collar personage who forms the spine of America.
Fiction book (2001) -
I believe we have a mutual acquaintance in the personage of Lady Catherine de Bourg?
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That was no less a personage than the minister of the interior.
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At the county jail, no less a personage than Gov. Joseph E. Brown arrived to question the prisoner.
Academic text (2009) -
The presence of this personage, as the emperor must acknowledge, is truly magnificent.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm expecting a certain royal personage from Balmoral.
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But it was widely read and made Berdyaev, at last, an important personage and thinker in Russian intellectual life.
Academic text (1991) -
Armytage is an admirable personage: stoical, detached, dutiful, and morally beyond reproach.
Academic text (1990) -
A vogue for memoirs or conversations with illustrious personages by eyewitnesses had flourished in the Romantic period.
Academic text (2006) -
If you could have dinner with a notable personage, who would it be?
Synonyms
661
4.1
A person who is important or well known
136
3.7
A famous person from TV, radio, or public life
51
3.5
A person who is well known to many people, for example a celebrity or politician
50
1.0
A person many people know because of their achievements
50
1.8
A person whose actions or words change what happens for many people
15
3.2
A person whose actions or ideas strongly affect other people's choices
5
4.1
A person who is well known and admired
1
2.5
An important person who is well known in a field
Antonyms
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word personage comes from the Latin persona, which meant 'mask' and later 'person', and it is the same root as person. So a personage is someone who stands out as important or notable.