English
Pronunciation
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Noun
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- rfquote-sense A famous or important person.
#*1872, w:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230
#*:I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.
Usage notes
In modern use, the noun personage is typically used with a partially redundant adjective, such as "notable" or "great"; as such, it may fairly be said to mean simply "person".
Translations
trans-top|A famous or important person
Chinese:
:Mandarin: 人� (rénwù)
:Min Nan: 人� (jîn-bu�t)
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Japanese: 人� (����, jinbutsu)
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