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Meaning of character

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  character
      n 1: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play
           or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
           [syn: {fictional character}, {fictitious character},
           {character}]
      2: 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" [syn:
         {quality}, {character}, {lineament}]
      3: 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 [syn:
         {character}, {fiber}, {fibre}]
      4: an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the
         part of Desdemona" [syn: {character}, {role}, {theatrical
         role}, {part}, {persona}]
      5: 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"
         [syn: {character}, {eccentric}, {type}, {case}]
      6: good repute; "he is a man of character"
      7: 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" [syn: {character}, {reference},
         {character reference}]
      8: a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek
         alphabet has 24 characters" [syn: {character}, {grapheme},
         {graphic symbol}]
      9: (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is
         determined by a gene or group of genes
      v 1: engrave or inscribe characters on

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