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Definition of Personage
1. Noun. Another word for person; a person not meriting identification. "A strange personage appeared at the door"
2. Noun. A person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events.
Generic synonyms: Adult, Grownup
Specialized synonyms: Big Cheese, Big Deal, Big Enchilada, Big Fish, Big Gun, Big Shot, Big Wheel, Head Honcho, Celebrity, Famous Person, Behemoth, Colossus, Giant, Heavyweight, Titan, Elder Statesman, Eminence Grise, Excellency, Fixer, Influence Peddler, Heavy Hitter, Hierarch, High-muck-a-muck, Pooh-bah, Kingmaker, Bigwig, Kingpin, Top Banana, Magnifico, Figure, Name, Public Figure, Nepotist, Policy Maker, Power Broker, Powerbroker, Sacred Cow, Sirdar, Socialite, Sun, Dignitary, High Muckamuck, High-up, Panjandrum, Very Important Person, Vip, Worthy
Definition of Personage
1. n. Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
Definition of Personage
1. Noun. A famous or important person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Personage
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personage
Literary usage of Personage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Present—A Bronze Statue and a Small personage in a big Cloak. ... Small personage.
No ; had it made for me, after a favourite pattern. Voice. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... to the Barbarous Murder of the late Earl of Essex, or a Vindication of that
Noble personage from the Guilt and Infamy of having destroyed Himself. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The real Mr. Dibden, he was told, was " a tall, sallow, thin old man, with a
wig," whereas he was a stoutish, somewhat jolly-looking personage, wearing his ..."
4. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"In Greece the people on Shrove Tuesday take a block of wood and dress it in old
clothes to represent a very fat but armless and legless personage. ..."
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