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the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer an actor''s portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person''s qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all to often answered evasively" a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" good repute; "he is a man of character" engrave or inscribe characters on a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel" |
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