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say it: KER-ik-tur
character is a noun and verb meaning "an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)". It carries 10 recorded senses.
an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
“she is the main character in the novel”
the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
“education has for its object the formation of character”
a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
“requests for character references are all too often answered evasively”
a written symbol that is used to represent speech
“the Greek alphabet has 24 characters”
(genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
genetics
engrave or inscribe characters on
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for character come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.