📒 a person or an animal in a book, play or film
- the main character in the film
- a major/minor character in the book
- Who plays the main character?
📒 a particular type of person in a play, film or TV show
- He has developed a skill set from his character work in film, TV and stage.
📒 all the qualities and features that make a person different from others
- to have a strong/weak character
- character traits
- character defects
📒 strong personal qualities such as the ability to deal with difficult or dangerous situations
- Everyone admires her strength of character and determination.
- He showed great character returning to the sport after his accident.
- Adventure camps are considered to be character-building (= meant to improve somebody's strong qualities).
📒 the way that something is; a particular quality or feature that a thing, an event or a place has
- The character of the neighbourhood hasn't changed at all.
- I love the delicate character of the light in the evening.
- The police pointed out the illegal character of the protest action.
📒 the interesting or unusual quality that a place or a person has
- The modern hotels here have no real character.
- a face with a lot of character
- the individual touches that give character to a house
📒 a person, particularly an unpleasant or strange one
- There were some really strange characters hanging around the bar.
- Who's that suspicious character hanging around outside?
- He reported several undesirable characters lurking around the estate.
📒 an interesting or unusual person
- She's a character!
- The bar was full of interesting local characters.
- You must have come across some real characters, working in the circus.
📒 the opinion that people have of you, particularly of whether you can be trusted or relied on
- a slur/attack on his character
- My teacher agreed to be a character witness for me in court.
- a character reference (= a letter that a person who knows you well writes to an employer to tell them about your good qualities)
📒 a letter, sign, mark or symbol used in writing, in printing or on computers
- These are the Chinese characters meaning ‘wind’ and ‘water’.
- This size of type produces a line 30 characters long.
- optical character recognition
📒 typical/not typical of a person’s character
- Her behaviour last night was completely out of character.
- The lawyer argued that his client's violent behaviour was out of character.
📒 in the same style as something
- The new wing of the museum was not really in character with the rest of the building.