See character on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "character", "tags": [ "singular" ] }, { "form": "characters", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "noun" } ], "hyphenation": "char‧ac‧ter", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Countable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "text": "He's got a really funny character." }, { "text": "He couldn't have done something so mean; it's completely out of character." } ], "glosses": [ "Someone's character is the combination of things that they do, feel, and believe that makes them a certain type of person." ], "raw_tags": [ "countable" ], "tags": [ "singular" ] }, { "categories": [ "Countable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "text": "The actor played three different characters in the movie." }, { "text": "I really want to like the main character in the book, but I find I can't." } ], "glosses": [ "A character is a person in a story, movie, play, etc." ], "raw_tags": [ "countable" ] }, { "categories": [ "Uncountable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "text": "The new factory has certainly changed the character of the city." }, { "text": "They believed the war would be local in character and brief in duration." }, { "text": "It's a boring room, lacking in character." } ], "glosses": [ "Character is the combination of facts and qualities that makes something different" ], "raw_tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "Countable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "text": "The text was written in a mixture of Chinese characters, Arabic numerals and Roman letters." } ], "glosses": [ "A character is one individual mark in a writing system, such as a letter, number, or punctuation mark." ], "raw_tags": [ "countable" ] }, { "categories": [ "Uncountable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "text": "It has long been claimed that sports build character." }, { "text": "She was a good judge of character, which made her a good manager." }, { "text": "He is a man, of great character and great faith." } ], "glosses": [ "Character is the combination of personal qualities, such as being honest and hard-working, that make you a good person." ], "raw_tags": [ "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈkærəktə/" }, { "audio": "en-us-character.ogg", "tags": [ "US" ] } ], "word": "character" }
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