personage
Syllables: per·son·ageUK/ˈpɜːsənɪd͡ʒ//ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒ/
personage noun: a person, especially one who is famous or important.
Noun
personage (plural personages)
- A person, especially one who is famous or important.
- I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230
- The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.2014, Lonely Planet, Best Place to be Today: 365 Things to do & the Perfect Day to do Them, →ISBN
- A character (in a film, book, play, etc).
- The creation of corporate persons named after living people.
- Character represented; external appearance; persona.
- But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon,
What ſtature wields he, and what perſonage?c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon,
personage meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
personage in Tamil
- புகழ்பெற்றவர், பிரமுகர், பிரபலமானவர், பிரபலம், கீர்த்திமான், நபர்
personage in Urdu
- کردار, نقل, روپ
personage in Bengali
- গুরুত্বপূর্ণ, উল্লেখযোগ্য ব্যক্তি
personage in Malayalam
- personality, important person, VIP
- പ്രമുഖവ്യക്തി, വിശിഷ്ടവ്യക്തി, സുപ്രധാനവ്യക്തി, വളരെ പ്രധാനിയായ വ്യക്തി, നോട്ടപ്പുള്ളി, പ്രശസ്തവ്യക്തി
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- personage in Kannada
- ಮೇಲಾಳು, ಅರಿದಾಳು, ಗಣ್ಯ ಪುರುಷ, ನಾಟಕದ ಪಾತ್ರ
Examples of personage in a sentence
- He talked with acidulous tolerance of the exalted personages who had sent Ashenden to X.
- The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.
- Nevertheless, but also neverthemore for all that matter, the family had hopes, which resided now within the personage of the concurrent daughter, Elizabeth.
Forms of personage
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Origin of personage
From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage; by surface analysis, person + -age (compare French suffix -age).
Questions about personage
- What does personage mean?
- Personage means a person, especially one who is famous or important.
- What is personage in Tamil?
- Personage in Tamil is புகழ்பெற்றவர், பிரமுகர், பிரபலமானவர். See Personage meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is personage?
- Personage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce personage?
- Personage is pronounced /ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒ/ (US).
- What is the plural of personage?
- The plural of personage is personages.
Words near personage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: personage (page history and authors); personage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); personage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); personage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); personage (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); personage (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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