personage

n.

1. A character in a literary work.
2. 1. A person.
   2. A person of distinction. See synonyms at celebrity.

[Middle English, person, from Old French, from persone, person. See person.]

noun

1. A person portrayed in fiction or drama: character, persona. See real/imaginary.
2. A member of the human race: being, body, creature, homo, human, human being, individual, life, man, mortal, party, person, soul. See beings.
3. An important, influential person: character, dignitary, eminence, leader, lion, nabob, notability, notable. Informal big-timer, heavyweight, somebody, someone, VIP. Slang big shot, big wheel, bigwig, muckamuck. See important/unimportant.
4. A famous person: celebrity, hero, lion, luminary, name, notable, personality. Informal big name. See knowledge/ignorance.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: another word for person; a person not meriting identification

Meaning #2: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
  Synonyms: important person, influential person

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - personlighed

Nederlands (Dutch)
(voornaam) persoon, personage

Français (French)
n. - personnalité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Person, Persönlichkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - επιφανής προσωπικότητα, μεγαλόσχημος, σπουδαίο πρόσωπο

Italiano (Italian)
personaggio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - personagem (m), personalidade (f)

Русский (Russian)
важная персона, человек, персонаж

Español (Spanish)
n. - personaje, celebridad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - personlighet (skämts.), person, figur

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
重要人士, 名士, 显要

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 重要人士, 名士, 顯要

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (문어) 명사, 사람, 풍채

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 著名人, 名士, 登場人物

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شخص, شخصيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אישיות, אדם חשוב, דמות במחזה‬

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