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| air |
the peculiar character, manner, bearing, or aspect of a person or thing. [1/8 definitions] |
| Amazon |
(often l.c.) a woman resembling this mythical race in stature, strength, or character. [1/3 definitions] |
| ambiance |
the distinctive character or mood of an environment; atmosphere. [1/2 definitions] |
| Americanize |
to cause to become American in appearance, character, speech, practices, or the like. |
| amorphous |
lacking definite form, shape, or character. [1/2 definitions] |
| Antigone |
in an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles, the heroine and title character, who buries her brother in defiance of a state edict and is executed. |
| anti-hero |
a central character in a story, novel, or play who lacks traditional heroic qualities, such as high purpose or moral strength. |
| apish |
apelike in appearance or character. [1/2 definitions] |
| architecture |
the style, character, or method of building design. [1/3 definitions] |
| ASCII |
abbreviation of "American Standard Code for Information Interchange," originally, a standard code using numbers to represent characters used in writing English, allowing textual data to be transferred between computers. ASCII has been expanded to allow character sets from other languages to be similarly encoded. |
| aside |
a comment made by an actor's character on stage that is heard by the audience but not, supposedly, by other characters. [1/6 definitions] |
| Babbitt |
the title character and protagonist of Sinclair Lewis's early twentieth-century novel, who is smug, conventional, and resolutely middle-class. [2 definitions] |
| backbone |
strength or firmness of character. [1/3 definitions] |
| background |
the sum of a person's experience, education, and origins, esp. as they relate to his present character or situation. [1/5 definitions] |
| balloon |
in a cartoon, the figure used to frame the words attributed to a character. [1/8 definitions] |
| baseborn |
of low or contemptible character. [1/3 definitions] |
| being |
essential or fundamental character; whole self. [1/3 definitions] |
| Beowulf |
the title character and hero of an anonymous, alliterative Old English epic poem. |
| bestiality |
beastlike or brutish conduct or character. [1/2 definitions] |
| bildungsroman |
a novel that concerns itself primarily with the psychological and moral development of the main character, usually from youth into adulthood. |
| blackface |
theatrical make-up used to burlesque a black character, as in a minstrel show, or an actor playing such a character. [1/2 definitions] |
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