personageとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːsənɪd͡ʒ/
• ハイフネーション: per‧son‧age

名詞

personage (複数形 personages)

1. A person, especially one who is famous or important.
   • 1872, 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.

2. The creation of corporate persons named after living people. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Character represented; external appearance; persona.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:

     But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon,
     What ſtature wields he, and what perſonage?

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