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Definition of personage - 4 dictionary results

per⋅son⋅age

  [pur-suh-nij]
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–noun
1. a person of distinction or importance.
2. any person.
3. a character in a play, story, etc.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME: body or image (statue, portrait) of a person (< OF) < ML persōnāgium. See person, -age

Synonyms:
1. See person.
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per·son·age   (pûr'sə-nĭj)   
n.  
  1. A character in a literary work.
    1. A person.
    2. A person of distinction. See Synonyms at celebrity.

[Middle English, person, from Old French, from persone, person; see person.]
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Personage

Per"son*age\, n. [F. personnage.]

1. Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. "In personage stately." --Hayward.

The damsel well did view his personage. --Spenser.

2. Character assumed or represented. "The actors and personages of this fable." --Broome. "Disguised in a false personage." --Addison.

3. A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall. --Spenser.
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Language Translation for : personage
Spanish: personaje,
German: die Rolle,
Japanese: 登場人物
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personage 
1461, "body of a person" (with regard to appearance), from O.Fr. personage (13c.), from M.L. personaticum (1057), from persona (see person). Meaning "a person of high rank or distinction" is attested from 1503; as a longer way to say person, the word was in use from c.1555 (but often slyly ironical, with suggestion that the subject is overly self-important).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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