personage

noun

per·​son·​age ˈpərs-nij 

ˈpər-sə-nij

1

: a person of rank, note, or distinction

especially : one distinguished for presence and personal power

2

: a human individual : person

3

: a dramatic, fictional, or historical character

also : impersonation

Synonyms

• baby
• being
• bird
• bod [British]
• body
• character
• cookie
• cooky
• creature
• customer
• devil
• duck
• egg
• face
• fish
• guy
• head
• human
• human being
• individual
• life
• man
• mortal
• party
• person
• scout
• slob
• sort
• soul
• specimen
• stiff
• thing
• wight

Examples of personage in a Sentence

The premiere was attended by no less a personage than the president himself.

these sci-fi conventions attract personages of every description

Recent Examples on the Web

Attendees range from Indian business tycoons and members of parliament to social media personages, film stars and celebrities, including the philanthropist billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, who is a member of an ashram in Prayagraj. —Sudipta Sen, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2025

Evanston artist Leo Segedin infused his vivid and colorful, figurative paintings with gritty looks at cityscapes featuring at-times exaggerated personages. —Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025

In order to become a celebrity, a person necessarily becomes a personage. —Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025

Somehow, surely, given the importance of the personages, word got out about the Laffer curve meeting, and the markets, in their remarkable pan-human powers of apperception, digested that changes in the tax-rate cut direction were bound to happen. —Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

personage

noun

per·​son·​age ˈpərs-nij 

-ᵊn-ij

1

: an important or famous person

2

: a character in a book or play