Definitions for character

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character char·ac·ter

Spelling: [kar-ik-ter]

IPA: /ˈkær ɪk tər/

Character is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in character (aaccehrrt).

Definitions for character

noun

1. the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
2. one such feature or trait; characteristic.
3. moral or ethical quality:
4. qualities of honesty, courage, or the like; integrity:
5. reputation:
6. good repute.
7. an account of the qualities or peculiarities of a person or thing.
8. a person, especially with reference to behavior or personality:
9. Informal. an odd, eccentric, or unusual person.
10. a person represented in a drama, story, etc.
11. a part or role, as in a play or film.
12. a symbol as used in a writing system, as a letter of the alphabet.
13. the symbols of a writing system collectively.
14. a significant visual mark or symbol.
15. status or capacity:
16. a written statement from an employer concerning the qualities of a former employee.
17. Literature. (especially in 17th- and 18th-century England) a formal character sketch or descriptive analysis of a particular human virtue or vice as represented in a person or type. Compare character sketch.
18. Genetics. any trait, function, structure, or substance of an organism resulting from the effect of one or more genes as modified by the environment.
19. Computers. any symbol, as a number, letter, punctuation mark, etc., that represents data and that, when encoded, is usable by a machine. one of a set of basic symbols that singly or in a series of two or more represents data and, when encoded, is usable in a computer.
20. a style of writing or printing.
21. Roman Catholic Theology. the ineffaceable imprint received on the soul through the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and ordination.
22. (formerly) a cipher or cipher message.

Idioms

1. in character, in harmony with one's personal character or disposition: in accordance with the role or personality assumed in a performance:
2. out of character, out of harmony with one's personal character or disposition: away from the role or personality assumed in a performance:

adjective

1. Theater. (of a part or role) representing a personality type, especially by emphasizing distinctive traits, as language, mannerisms, physical makeup, etc. (of an actor or actress) acting or specializing in such roles.

verb (used with object)

1. to portray; describe.
2. to engrave; inscribe.

Origin of character

1275-1325; Latin Greek charaktḗr graving tool, its mark, equivalent to charak- (base of charáttein to engrave) + -tēr agent suffix; replacing Middle English caractere Middle French Latin, as

Examples for character

You shall now, if I have misapprehended you not, develop a new strongness of the character.

The unaccountable change in Eudora's character perplexed and troubled her.

I have been acquainted with her character and actions for several years.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

But I have a secret dread of the character and power of Alcibiades.

I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.

However, to the right, if the character they love was originally white, then they should stay white forever.

Even though my character got killed in that first episode it was a pretty shootout scene.

Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.

Forget those silly “games played with the ball”; they are far “too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”