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Synonyms for personages

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pur-suh-nij
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɜr sə nɪdʒ

Top 10 synonyms for personages
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Définition of personages

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 celebrity, notable
  • noun individual
Example sentences :
  • Do we not nightly jumble events and personages and times and places, as these do daily?
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • As usual, the personages who head the dramatis person are not the best.
  • Extract from : « Sir Walter Scott » by George Saintsbury
  • The reverse of this is the case with the personages of the Fables.
  • Extract from : « Views and Reviews » by William Ernest Henley
  • The personages whom he introduces, besides himself, are his best friends.
  • Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
  • He had recently made the acquaintance of two Russian personages of consideration.
  • Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley
  • These personages of romance were not in training for the heavy classical panoply.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • There is no comparison between the personages in the two stories.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • President Benton was there, with his cabinet and certain other personages.
  • Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • You will have opposed to you the most powerful adversaries and most august personages.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry » by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
  • Each of these personages had a daughter whom they were desirous that Perdiccas should make his wife.
  • Extract from : « Pyrrhus » by Jacob Abbott

Antonyms for personages

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