"personify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /pə(ɹ)ˈsɒnɪfaɪ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-personify.wav [Southern-England] Forms: personifies [present, singular, third-person], personifying [participle, present], personified [participle, past], personified [past]
Etymology: From French personnifier; equivalent to person + -ify or persona + -ify. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|personnifier}} French personnifier, {{suf|en|person|ify}} person + -ify, {{suf|en|persona|ify}} persona + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} personify (third-person singular simple present personifies, present participle personifying, simple past and past participle personified)
  1. (transitive) To be an example of; to have all the attributes of. Tags: transitive Translations (to be an example of): олицетворявам (olicetvorjavam) (Bulgarian), personificar (Catalan), henkilöidä (Finnish), personnifier (French), personificar (Galician), personifizieren (German), megtestesít (Hungarian), personificare (Italian), personifisere (Norwegian), персонифици́ровать (personificírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), personificirati (Serbo-Croatian), personificar (Spanish), personifiera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-personify-en-verb-3eVmFSyy Disambiguation of 'to be an example of': 98 2
  2. (transitive) To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona. Tags: transitive Translations (to create a representation in the form of a character): въплъщавам (vǎplǎštavam) (Bulgarian), personificar (Catalan), henkilöidä (Finnish), personnifier (French), personificar (Galician), personifizieren (German), προσωποποιώ (prosopopoió) (Greek), megszemélyesít (Hungarian), animizować [imperfective] (Polish), олицетворя́ть (olicetvorjátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), воплоща́ть (voploščátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), upriličiti (Serbo-Croatian), personificirati (Serbo-Croatian), personificar (Spanish), personoli (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-personify-en-verb-mmwdvO86 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ify Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 93 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ify: 16 84 Disambiguation of 'to create a representation in the form of a character': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: personification

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