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character

English

  1. 🔊 (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
  2. 🔊 the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
    “education has for its object the formation of character”
  3. 🔊 an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
    “she played the part of Desdemona”
  4. 🔊 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 too often answered evasively”
  5. 🔊 a written symbol that is used to represent speech
    “the Greek alphabet has 24 characters”
  6. 🔊 a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
    “a real character”
  7. 🔊 good repute
    “he is a man of character”
  8. 🔊 a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
    “each town has a quality all its own”
  9. 🔊 an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
    “she is the main character in the novel”
  10. 🔊 engrave or inscribe characters on

Spanish

  1. 🔊 solera character, history
  2. 🔊 calaña character, nature, quality

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