<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.</li><li>one such feature or trait; characteristic.</li><li>moral or ethical quality: a man of fine, honorable character.</li><li>qualities of honesty, courage, or the like; integrity: It takes character to face up to a bully.</li><li>reputation: a stain on one's character.</li><li>Synonyms: repute, name good repute.</li><li>an account of the qualities or peculiarities of a person or thing.</li><li>a person, especially with reference to behavior or personality: a suspicious character.</li><li>Informal: an odd, eccentric, or unusual person.</li><li>a person represented in a drama, story, etc.</li><li>a part or role, as in a play or film.</li><li>a symbol as used in a writing system, as a letter of the alphabet.</li><li>the symbols of a writing system collectively.</li><li>a significant visual mark or symbol.</li><li>Synonyms: sign status or capacity: the character of a justice of the peace.</li><li>a written statement from an employer concerning the qualities of a former employee.</li><li>Literature: (especially in 17th- and 18th-century England) a formal character sketch or descriptive analysis of a particular human virtue or vice as represented in a person or type.</li><li>Compare character sketch.</li><li>Genetics: any trait, function, structure, or substance of an organism resulting from the effect of one or more genes as modified by the environment.</li><li>Computers: any symbol, as a number, letter, punctuation mark, etc., that represents data and that, when encoded, is usable by a machine.</li><li>one of a set of basic symbols that singly or in a series of two or more represents data and, when encoded, is usable in a computer.</li><li>a style of writing or printing.</li><li>Roman Catholic Theology: the ineffaceable imprint received on the soul through the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and ordination.</li><li>(formerly) a cipher or cipher message.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Theater: (of a part or role) representing a personality type, especially by emphasizing distinctive traits, as language, mannerisms, physical makeup, etc.</li><li>(of an actor or actress) acting or specializing in such roles.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object), Archaic: to portray; describe.</li><li>to engrave; inscribe.</li></ul>