personage
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒ/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈpɜːsənɪd͡ʒ/
Noun

personage (plural personages)

  1. A person, especially one who is famous or important.
    • 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230 ↗:
      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.
  2. The creation of corporate persons named after living people.
  3. Character represented; external appearance; persona.
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