• Noun: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); example: "she is the main character in the novel"
• Noun: a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; examples: "each town has a quality all its own", "the radical character of our demands"
• Noun: the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; example: "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spence"
• Noun: an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; example: "she played the part of Desdemona"
• Noun: a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); examples: "a real character", "a strange character", "a friendly eccentric", "the capable type", "a mental case"
• Noun: good repute; example: "he is a man of character"
• Noun: a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; example: "requests for character references are all to often answered evasively"
• Noun: a written symbol that is used to represent speech; example: "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
• Noun: (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
• Verb: engrave or inscribe characters on