important person

1. 1.

   a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

   Synonymsinfluential personpersonage

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Questions about important person

What does important person mean?

important person means "a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events".

What is another word for important person?

Close synonyms include influential person, personage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is important person a common word?

important person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.