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A personage is a person, but the word lifts them up: usually someone famous, important, or grand. Visiting presidents, great writers, people of rank — those are personages. It is formal and a little old-fashioned. In a news report it can sound stiff; in a story it can sound grand on purpose. You would not call your a personage. Though actually, writers also use it with a wink, for someone who only thinks they are important. It has nothing to do with how old someone is, even though the letters look a bit like person plus age.
要人、知名人物（較書面、有點老派）
組成From French personnage; by the look of the English word, person + -age (the same kind of ending as in French -age). Not the English word age meaning “how old.”
同家族的字
- personthe base; a personage is a person spoken of as important
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
personagenoun/ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒ/
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A person, especially one who is famous or important.
- I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.
- The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.
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A character (in a film, book, play, etc).
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The creation of corporate persons named after living people.
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Character represented; external appearance; persona.
- But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon, What ſtature wields he, and what perſonage?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。