character:
(plural: ‘characters‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘ch’ and the second ‘c’ in this word are said with a ‘k’ sound as in “kick” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
three characters in a play/drama
a person (or animal or personalised animal or thing) in a story, play (drama), film, etc.;
a person with a strange, different or odd behaviour;
a well-known person,
Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse
In Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Romeo is a male lead character (hero) and Juliet is a female lead character (heroine).
In the popular movie ‘Mortal Kombat’, Liu Kang is the principal character played by Robin Shou. (i.e. ‘Liu Kang’ is the name of a person in the story and Robin Shou is a real person, Chinese martial artist and actor, who acted in the movie as Liu Kang’)
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse are the most loved Disney characters.
Tom is an elderly character at our local pub; everybody knows him and he knows everybody else!
Joe is such a silly character that everybody at our office makes fun of him, and, strangely enough, he doesn’t seem to take notice of the ridicule he’s subjected to and never seems to change his behaviour.
