Слово англійською: character

Іменник

Переклад character українською: хара́ктер, вда́ча (я́кості і т. д.), знак (бу́ква, но́та і т. д.), персона́ж

Детальний опис

character

noun

/ˈkærəktər/

in book/play/movie

[countable] 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?
He loves to draw and create his own cartoon characters.
Her character is the most sympathetic in the movie.

qualities/features

[countable, usually singular] all the qualities and features that make a person different from others

to have a strong/weak character
character traits
character defects
The book gives a fascinating insight into her character.
Generosity is part of the American character.

strange/interesting person

[countable] (informal) (used with an adjective) a person, particularly an unpleasant or strange one

There were some really strange characters hanging around in the park.

[countable] (informal) an interesting or unusual person

She's a character!

reputation

[countable, uncountable] (formal) 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)

symbol/letter

[countable] 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.
The URL contained non-standard characters like question marks.

see also optical character recognition, special character

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French caractere, via Latin from Greek kharaktēr ‘a stamping tool’. From the early sense ‘distinctive mark’ arose ‘token, feature, or trait’ (early 16th cent.), and from this ‘a description, especially of a person's qualities’, giving rise to ‘distinguishing qualities’.

Idioms

in character | out of character

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 character (with something)

in the same style as something
- The new wing of the museum was not really in character with the rest of the building.

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