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An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) She is the main character in the novel |
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A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something Each town has a quality all its own The radical character of our demands |
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The inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions Education has for its object the formation of character- Herbert Spencer |
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An actor's portrayal of someone in a play She played the part of Desdemona |
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A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) A real character A strange character A friendly eccentric The capable type A mental case |
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Good repute He is a man of character |
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A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability Requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
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A written symbol that is used to represent speech The Greek alphabet has 24 characters |
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(genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes |
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Engrave or inscribe characters on |