Definitions for protagonists

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protagonists pro·tag·o·nist

Spelling: [proh-tag-uh-nist]

IPA: /proʊˈtæg ə nɪst/

Protagonists is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1259 anagrams from letters in protagonists (aginooprsstt).

Definitions for protagonists

noun

1. the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
2. a proponent for or advocate of a political cause, social program, etc.
3. the leader or principal person in a movement, cause, etc.
4. the first actor in ancient Greek drama, who played not only the main role, but also other roles when the main character was offstage. Compare deuteragonist, tritagonist.
5. Physiology. agonist.

Origin of protagonists

1665-75; Greek prōtagōnistḗs actor who plays the first part, literally, first combatant, equivalent to prôt(os) first + agōnistḗs one who contends for a prize, combatant, actor. See Examples for protagonists

The protagonist is the creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston, born in 1893.

He is still the Great Erastian, the protagonist of laity against clergy.

And he had been the protagonist of everything sensible, orthodox, and prudent!

The series began with protagonist, Neil Truman, an investment banker, discovering his wife having sex with a male escort.

There is no longer a protagonist in the great drama, for there is no longer an antagonist.

Dave Eggers wrote What Is The What after conducting hundreds of hours of interviews with his protagonist.

In the absence of Fox, Grey was the protagonist of Opposition.

And contradiction demands a "for" and an "against," a protagonist and an antagonist.

As a result, the exhibit falls short of showing Mary as real woman, as a protagonist in her own life story.

As the protagonist gets herself off in front of her impotent husband, she moans “Oh, Gronky.”