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dramatis persona

dramatis persona is the singular of dramatis personae.

Meaning of dramatis personae

Noun

dramatis personae pl (normally plural, singular dramatis persona)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) The characters in a play, story, or history; a list of them, usually arranged in order of first appearance, as protatic matter.
    • (The Devil enters like a sapphire wasp
      That flickers mica wings. He lifts a hand
      To brush away a disrespectful smile.
      Job’s wife sits up.)
      Job’s Wife ➢ Well, if we aren’t all here.
      Including me, the only Dramatis
      Personae needed to enact the problem.1945, Robert Frost, A Masque of Reason

Forms of dramatis persona

pluraldramatis personae

Questions about dramatis persona

What is dramatis persona the singular of?
Dramatis persona is the singular of dramatis personae.

Words near dramatis persona in the dictionary

  1. dramatico-musical
  2. dramaticomusical
  3. dramatics
  4. dramaticule
  5. dramaticules
  6. dramatis persona
  7. dramatis personae
  8. dramatis personæ
  9. dramatisable
  10. dramatisation
  11. dramatisations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dramatis persona (page history and authors); dramatis personae (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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