fictitious character
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1. an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) (noun.person)
instance hyponym | : | aladdin, |
definition | : | in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | argonaut, |
definition | : | (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | babar, |
definition | : | an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | beatrice, |
definition | : | the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | beowulf, |
definition | : | the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bluebeard, |
definition | : | (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bond, james bond, |
definition | : | British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | brer rabbit, |
definition | : | the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in 1880 (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bunyan, paul bunyan, |
definition | : | a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john henry, |
definition | : | hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cheshire cat, |
definition | : | a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | chicken little, |
definition | : | a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cinderella, |
definition | : | a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | colonel blimp, |
definition | : | a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dracula, |
definition | : | fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | don quixote, |
definition | : | the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | el cid, |
definition | : | the hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | fagin, |
definition | : | a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | father brown, |
definition | : | a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | faust, faustus, |
definition | : | an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | frankenstein, |
definition | : | the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, |
definition | : | the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | goofy, |
definition | : | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gulliver, |
definition | : | a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hamlet, |
definition | : | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | iago, |
definition | : | the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | kilroy, |
definition | : | a nonexistent person popularized by American servicemen during World War II (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | king lear, lear, |
definition | : | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lilliputian, |
definition | : | a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | marlowe, philip marlowe, |
definition | : | tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | micawber, wilkins micawber, |
definition | : | fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mother goose, |
definition | : | the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mr. moto, |
definition | : | Japanese sleuth created by John Marquand (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | othello, |
definition | : | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | pangloss, |
definition | : | an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | pantaloon, |
definition | : | a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | perry mason, |
definition | : | fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | peter pan, |
definition | : | the main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | pierrot, |
definition | : | a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | pluto, |
definition | : | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | rip van winkle, |
definition | : | the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ruritanian, |
definition | : | an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | tarzan, tarzan of the apes, |
definition | : | a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | tom sawyer, |
definition | : | the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | uncle remus, |
definition | : | the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880 (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | uncle tom, |
definition | : | a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | uncle sam, |
definition | : | a personification of the United States government (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | holmes, sherlock holmes, |
definition | : | a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | simon legree, |
definition | : | the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | sinbad, sinbad the sailor, |
definition | : | in the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | snoopy, |
definition | : | a fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ali baba, |
definition | : | the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | emile, |
definition | : | the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | agonist, protagonist, |
definition | : | the principal character in a work of fiction (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | houyhnhnm, |
definition | : | one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | little john, |
definition | : | legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | little red riding hood, |
definition | : | a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | raskolnikov, rodya raskolnikov, |
definition | : | a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | robin hood, |
definition | : | legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | robinson crusoe, |
definition | : | the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | rumpelstiltskin, |
definition | : | a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | shylock, |
definition | : | a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | tristan, tristram, |
definition | : | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | iseult, isolde, |
definition | : | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | scaramouch, scaramouche, |
definition | : | a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | svengali, |
definition | : | the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | sweeney todd, todd, |
definition | : | fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | trilby, |
definition | : | singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | walter mitty, |
definition | : | fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | yahoo, |
definition | : | one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | arthur, king arthur, |
definition | : | a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | galahad, sir galahad, |
definition | : | (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gawain, sir gawain, |
definition | : | (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | guenevere, guinevere, |
definition | : | (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lancelot, sir lancelot, |
definition | : | (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | merlin, |
definition | : | (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor (noun.person) |
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