character
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1. (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes (noun.attribute)
| hypernym | : | attribute, |
| definition | : | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity (noun.tops) |
| hyponym | : | unit character, |
| definition | : | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene (noun.attribute) |
| domain category | : | genetic science, genetics, |
| definition | : | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms (noun.cognition) |
2. the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions (noun.attribute)
| hypernym | : | trait, |
| definition | : | a distinguishing feature of your personal nature (noun.attribute) |
| hyponym | : | spirit, |
| definition | : | a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character (noun.attribute) |
| part holonym | : | thoughtfulness, |
| definition | : | the trait of thinking carefully before acting (noun.attribute) |
| part holonym | : | responsibility, responsibleness, |
| definition | : | a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct (noun.attribute) |
| part holonym | : | integrity, |
| definition | : | moral soundness (noun.attribute) |
| part meronym | : | personality, |
| definition | : | the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual (noun.attribute) |
3. a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | attribute, dimension, property, |
| definition | : | a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | texture, |
| definition | : | the essential quality of something (noun.cognition) |
4. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play (noun.cognition)
| hyponym | : | heavy, |
| definition | : | a serious (or tragic) role in a play (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | hero, |
| definition | : | the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | ingenue, |
| definition | : | the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | name part, title role, |
| definition | : | the role of the character after whom the play is named (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | heroine, |
| definition | : | the main good female character in a work of fiction (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | baddie, villain, |
| definition | : | the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction (noun.person) |
5. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | good word, recommendation, testimonial, |
| definition | : | something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable (noun.communication) |
6. a written symbol that is used to represent speech (noun.communication)
| hyponym | : | allograph, |
| definition | : | a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | check character, |
| definition | : | a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | superior, superscript, |
| definition | : | a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | inferior, subscript, |
| definition | : | a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | ascii character, |
| definition | : | any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | ligature, |
| definition | : | character consisting of two or more letters combined into one (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | type, |
| definition | : | printed characters (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | percent sign, percentage sign, |
| definition | : | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100 (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | asterisk, star, |
| definition | : | a star-shaped character * used in printing (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | dagger, obelisk, |
| definition | : | a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | blank, space, |
| definition | : | a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | phonetic symbol, |
| definition | : | a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | mathematical symbol, |
| definition | : | a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | rune, runic letter, |
| definition | : | any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | pictograph, |
| definition | : | a graphic character used in picture writing (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | ideogram, ideograph, |
| definition | : | a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | radical, |
| definition | : | a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | stenograph, |
| definition | : | a shorthand character (noun.communication) |
7. an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) (noun.person)
| instance hyponym | : | aladdin, |
| definition | : | in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | argonaut, |
| definition | : | (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | babar, |
| definition | : | an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | beatrice, |
| definition | : | the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | beowulf, |
| definition | : | the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bluebeard, |
| definition | : | (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bond, james bond, |
| definition | : | British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | brer rabbit, |
| definition | : | the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in 1880 (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bunyan, paul bunyan, |
| definition | : | a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john henry, |
| definition | : | hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cheshire cat, |
| definition | : | a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | chicken little, |
| definition | : | a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cinderella, |
| definition | : | a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | colonel blimp, |
| definition | : | a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | dracula, |
| definition | : | fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | don quixote, |
| definition | : | the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | el cid, |
| definition | : | the hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | fagin, |
| definition | : | a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | father brown, |
| definition | : | a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | faust, faustus, |
| definition | : | an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | frankenstein, |
| definition | : | the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, |
| definition | : | the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | goofy, |
| definition | : | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gulliver, |
| definition | : | a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hamlet, |
| definition | : | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | iago, |
| definition | : | the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | kilroy, |
| definition | : | a nonexistent person popularized by American servicemen during World War II (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | king lear, lear, |
| definition | : | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | lilliputian, |
| definition | : | a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | marlowe, philip marlowe, |
| definition | : | tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | micawber, wilkins micawber, |
| definition | : | fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | mother goose, |
| definition | : | the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | mr. moto, |
| definition | : | Japanese sleuth created by John Marquand (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | othello, |
| definition | : | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | pangloss, |
| definition | : | an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | pantaloon, |
| definition | : | a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | perry mason, |
| definition | : | fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | peter pan, |
| definition | : | the main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | pierrot, |
| definition | : | a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | pluto, |
| definition | : | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | rip van winkle, |
| definition | : | the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | ruritanian, |
| definition | : | an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | tarzan, tarzan of the apes, |
| definition | : | a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | tom sawyer, |
| definition | : | the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | uncle remus, |
| definition | : | the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880 (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | uncle tom, |
| definition | : | a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | uncle sam, |
| definition | : | a personification of the United States government (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | holmes, sherlock holmes, |
| definition | : | a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | simon legree, |
| definition | : | the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | sinbad, sinbad the sailor, |
| definition | : | in the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | snoopy, |
| definition | : | a fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | ali baba, |
| definition | : | the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | emile, |
| definition | : | the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | agonist, protagonist, |
| definition | : | the principal character in a work of fiction (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | houyhnhnm, |
| definition | : | one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | little john, |
| definition | : | legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | little red riding hood, |
| definition | : | a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | raskolnikov, rodya raskolnikov, |
| definition | : | a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | robin hood, |
| definition | : | legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | robinson crusoe, |
| definition | : | the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | rumpelstiltskin, |
| definition | : | a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | shylock, |
| definition | : | a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | tristan, tristram, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | iseult, isolde, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | scaramouch, scaramouche, |
| definition | : | a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | svengali, |
| definition | : | the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | sweeney todd, todd, |
| definition | : | fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | trilby, |
| definition | : | singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | walter mitty, |
| definition | : | fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | yahoo, |
| definition | : | one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | arthur, king arthur, |
| definition | : | a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | galahad, sir galahad, |
| definition | : | (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gawain, sir gawain, |
| definition | : | (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | guenevere, guinevere, |
| definition | : | (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | lancelot, sir lancelot, |
| definition | : | (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | merlin, |
| definition | : | (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor (noun.person) |
8. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | adult, grownup, |
| definition | : | a fully developed person from maturity onward (noun.person) |
9. good repute (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | reputation, repute, |
| definition | : | the state of being held in high esteem and honor (noun.state) |
10. engrave or inscribe characters on (verb.contact)
11. a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | characteristic, |
| definition | : | typical or distinctive (adj.all) |
12. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | impersonate, |
| definition | : | represent another person with comic intentions (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | impersonate, portray, |
| definition | : | assume or act the character of (verb.creation) |
| derivation | : | be, embody, personify, |
| definition | : | represent, as of a character on stage (verb.stative) |
13. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability (noun.communication)
14. a written symbol that is used to represent speech (noun.communication)
| derivation | : | character, |
| definition | : | engrave or inscribe characters on (verb.contact) |
15. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) (noun.person)
| derivation | : | type, typecast, |
| definition | : | identify as belonging to a certain type (verb.cognition) |
| derivation | : | epitomise, epitomize, typify, |
| definition | : | embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of (verb.stative) |
16. engrave or inscribe characters on (verb.contact)
17. a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | characteristic, |
| definition | : | typical or distinctive (adj.all) |
18. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | impersonate, |
| definition | : | represent another person with comic intentions (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | impersonate, portray, |
| definition | : | assume or act the character of (verb.creation) |
| derivation | : | be, embody, personify, |
| definition | : | represent, as of a character on stage (verb.stative) |
19. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability (noun.communication)
20. a written symbol that is used to represent speech (noun.communication)
| derivation | : | character, |
| definition | : | engrave or inscribe characters on (verb.contact) |
21. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) (noun.person)
| derivation | : | type, typecast, |
| definition | : | identify as belonging to a certain type (verb.cognition) |
| derivation | : | epitomise, epitomize, typify, |
| definition | : | embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of (verb.stative) |
22. engrave or inscribe characters on (verb.contact)
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