influential person

Questions about influential person

What does influential person mean?

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

What is another word for influential person?

Close synonyms include important 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 influential person a common word?

influential 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.