personage

From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹsn̩ɨdʒ/, /ˈpɝsənɨdʒ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːsənɨdʒ/

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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.

Borrowed from French personnage.

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Hyphenation: per‧so‧na‧ge

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.