character in English: A person in a book, film, or play. "Character" also means the kind of person someone is. (noun)

Translation

A person in a book, film, or play. "Character" also means the kind of person someone is.

Word origin

From Greek kharakter, a tool for stamping and the mark it leaves.

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"Character" here is a person in a story.

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"Characters" is the plural.

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Here "character" means the kind of person she is.

story

A description of events, real or not, that you tell or write for others.

book

A set of printed pages joined together that you read.

film

A story told in moving pictures. It is the usual British word for a movie.

person

A single human being, such as a man, woman, or child.

actor

A person who plays a part in a film, play, or show.

role

The part that a person plays in a story, or the job they do inside a group.

personality

The kind of person you are, shown by the way you think, feel, and act with others.

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