disposition, temperament, temper, character, personality mean the dominant quality or qualities distinguishing a person or group. disposition implies customary moods and attitude toward the …

Characters can be based on real people and events, or be totally unrealistic, such as space aliens. People become attached to characters as if they are real, may develop favorites, and …

There were one or two strange-looking characters hanging around the bar. C1 [ C ] informal someone whose behaviour is different from most people's, especially in a way that is …

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

This is an alphabetically ordered list of fictional characters, including the titles of works in which they appear. See also literature; novel; fable; short

If something is in character with something else, it has the same qualities or characteristics as something else. This room is not really in character with the rest of the house. Their house has …

The characters in a film, book, or play are the people that it is about. The film is autobiographical and the central character is played by Collard himself. He's made the characters believable.