character

Meanings

Noun

• A being involved in the action of a story.
• A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
• A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
• Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
• A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
• A written or printed symbol, or letter.
• Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
• A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
• One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
• A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
• A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
• Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
• The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
• A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
• Personal appearance.

Verb

• To write (using characters); to describe.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• bell character
• Chinese character
• control character
• delete character
• dominant character
• escape character
• cartoon character
• null character
• player character
• round character
• staple character
• stock character
• whitespace character

Origin

• From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ ("type, nature, character"), from χαράσσω, either from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- or of Pre-Greek origin. charakter.