"CHARNAME" meaning in English

See CHARNAME in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: CHARNAMEs [plural]
Etymology: From CHARNAME, the placeholder used for the player-inputted name in BG1's source code, itself a compound of char (“character”) + name. Etymology templates: {{'}} ', {{compound|en|char|name|t1=character}} char (“character”) + name Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} CHARNAME (plural CHARNAMEs)
  1. (fandom slang) The player character of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Baldur's Gate, Fictional characters, Nicknames Synonyms: Charname
    Sense id: en-CHARNAME-en-name-sRS5GLRs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: lifestyle
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "'",
      "name": "'"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "char",
        "3": "name",
        "t1": "character"
      },
      "expansion": "char (“character”) + name",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From CHARNAME, the placeholder used for the player-inputted name in BG1's source code, itself a compound of char (“character”) + name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "CHARNAMEs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "CHARNAME (plural CHARNAMEs)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baldur's Gate",
          "orig": "en:Baldur's Gate",
          "parents": [
            "Dungeons & Dragons",
            "Fantasy",
            "Video games",
            "Role-playing games",
            "Tabletop games",
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Games",
            "Mass media",
            "Software",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Computing",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fictional characters",
          "orig": "en:Fictional characters",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Art",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nicknames",
          "orig": "en:Nicknames",
          "parents": [
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 September 9, preyer, Reddit:",
          "text": "Dexterity doesn't help your CHARNAME hit anything. It only helps CHARNAME to not get hit by others.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 September 21, Malbethion, Reddit:",
          "text": "Valygar and Haer'Dalis were the other two romances for female CHARNAME, however they were cut due to time constraints.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 15, GabTheGayFrog, Reddit:",
          "text": "Y'all have some weird CHARNAMES.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The player character of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn."
      ],
      "id": "en-CHARNAME-en-name-sRS5GLRs",
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "player character",
          "player character"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang) The player character of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Charname"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "CHARNAME"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "'",
      "name": "'"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "char",
        "3": "name",
        "t1": "character"
      },
      "expansion": "char (“character”) + name",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From CHARNAME, the placeholder used for the player-inputted name in BG1's source code, itself a compound of char (“character”) + name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "CHARNAMEs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "CHARNAME (plural CHARNAMEs)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English fandom slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Baldur's Gate",
        "en:Fictional characters",
        "en:Nicknames"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 September 9, preyer, Reddit:",
          "text": "Dexterity doesn't help your CHARNAME hit anything. It only helps CHARNAME to not get hit by others.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 September 21, Malbethion, Reddit:",
          "text": "Valygar and Haer'Dalis were the other two romances for female CHARNAME, however they were cut due to time constraints.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 15, GabTheGayFrog, Reddit:",
          "text": "Y'all have some weird CHARNAMES.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The player character of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "player character",
          "player character"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang) The player character of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Charname"
    }
  ],
  "word": "CHARNAME"
}

Download raw JSONL data for CHARNAME meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.