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From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage.

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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. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. Character represented; external appearance; persona.

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Etymology Edit

Borrowed from French personnage.

Pronunciation Edit

Hyphenation: per‧so‧na‧ge

Noun Edit

personage n (plural personages)

  1. Character in a work of fiction.
    Iago is een personage in Shakespeares Othello.
    Iago is a character in Shakespeare's Othello.