"main character" meaning in English

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      "form": "main characters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "main character (plural main characters)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Social media",
          "orig": "en:Social media",
          "parents": [
            "Internet",
            "Mass media",
            "Computing",
            "Networking",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Technology",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Stock characters",
          "orig": "en:Stock characters",
          "parents": [
            "Fictional characters",
            "Fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Art",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Twitter",
          "orig": "en:Twitter",
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            "Social media",
            "World Wide Web",
            "Internet",
            "Mass media",
            "Computing",
            "Networking",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Technology",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Paul Farhi, \"How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020\", The Washington Post, 28 December 2020 (image caption)",
          "text": "With his Jill Biden essay, Joseph Epstein became Twitter’s main character this month."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 5, Dani Di Placido, “The Ballad Of ‘Bean Dad’ Shows The Cruel, Petty Side Of Twitter”, in Forbes",
          "text": "Unless you’re in the business of receiving hate clicks for profit, you never want to be the “main character” of Twitter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 14, Delia Cai, “How Elon Musk Became the Internet’s New Main Character”, in Vanity Fair",
          "text": "And while Trump, at least, now faces a reckoning over his most consequential tweets via the January 6 hearings, one final way to understand Elon Musk as our new main character is to consider the internet that has incentivized the rise of both men.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter)."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "focal point",
          "focal point"
        ],
        [
          "discussion",
          "discussion"
        ],
        [
          "social media",
          "social media"
        ],
        [
          "platform",
          "platform"
        ],
        [
          "Twitter",
          "Twitter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, idiomatic) A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "main character syndrome"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see main, character."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "main",
          "main#English"
        ],
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          "character",
          "character#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "protagonist"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "main character"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "en:Social media",
    "en:Stock characters",
    "en:Twitter"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "main character syndrome"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "main characters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "protagonist"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English internet slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Paul Farhi, \"How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020\", The Washington Post, 28 December 2020 (image caption)",
          "text": "With his Jill Biden essay, Joseph Epstein became Twitter’s main character this month."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 5, Dani Di Placido, “The Ballad Of ‘Bean Dad’ Shows The Cruel, Petty Side Of Twitter”, in Forbes",
          "text": "Unless you’re in the business of receiving hate clicks for profit, you never want to be the “main character” of Twitter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 14, Delia Cai, “How Elon Musk Became the Internet’s New Main Character”, in Vanity Fair",
          "text": "And while Trump, at least, now faces a reckoning over his most consequential tweets via the January 6 hearings, one final way to understand Elon Musk as our new main character is to consider the internet that has incentivized the rise of both men.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter)."
      ],
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        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
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          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "focal point",
          "focal point"
        ],
        [
          "discussion",
          "discussion"
        ],
        [
          "social media",
          "social media"
        ],
        [
          "platform",
          "platform"
        ],
        [
          "Twitter",
          "Twitter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, idiomatic) A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see main, character."
      ],
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          "main",
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        ],
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          "character",
          "character#English"
        ]
      ]
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  "word": "main character"
}