Synonyms for personage

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pur-suh-nij

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɜr sə nɪdʒ

Définition of personage

Origin : mid-15c., "body of a person" (with regard to appearance), from Old French personage "size, stature," also "a dignitary" (13c.), from Medieval Latin personaticum (11c.), from persona (see person). Meaning "a person of high rank or distinction" is attested from c.1500 in English; as a longer way to say person, the word was in use from 1550s (but often slyly ironical, with suggestion that the subject is overly self-important).

noun individual

Example sentences :

Now what other personage is there in Shakespeare who shows these traits or some of them?
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

The Personage on the hearthrug had been listening with profound attention.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

Mr. Macgregor, rising, advanced with great respect to this personage.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

But Philip had another motive in continuing his acquaintance with that personage.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Until now this personage had escaped the observation of the travelers.
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

The personage never opened his book, and never looked at the clergyman.
Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens

But I was allowed to do anything that day, for I had become a personage.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

But that is but the vision of a second; my mind has been thinking of the soul that is to govern this personage.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Behind it rode a personage wearing a scarlet hat and garments of purple.
Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

This personage was as stiff and stately as he was magnificent.
Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

Antonyms for personage

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