1. an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"

Similar Words: fictitious character, character

Hyponyms: Aladdin, Argonaut, Babar, Beatrice, Beowulf, Bluebeard, Bond, James Bond, Bunyan, Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Cheshire cat, Chicken Little, Cinderella, Colonel Blimp, Dracula, Don Quixote, El Cid, Fagin, Falstaff, Sir John Falstaff, Father Brown, Faust, Faustus, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, Goofy, Gulliver, Hamlet, Horatio Hornblower, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Iago, Inspector Maigret, Commissaire Maigret, Kilroy, Lear, King Lear, Lilliputian, Marlowe, Philip Marlowe, Micawber, Wilkins Micawber, Mother Goose, Mr. Moto, Othello, Pangloss, Pantaloon, Perry Mason, Peter Pan, Pierrot, Pluto, Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn, Ruritanian, Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Tom Sawyer, Uncle Tom, Uncle Sam, Sherlock Holmes, Holmes, Simon Legree, Sinbad the Sailor, Sinbad, Snoopy, Ali Baba, Emile, protagonist, agonist, Houyhnhnm, Little John, Little Red Ricing Hood, Raskolnikov, Rodya Raskolnikov, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Rumpelstiltskin, Shylock, Tristan, Tristram, Iseult, Scaramouch, Scaramouche, Svengali, Todd, Sweeney Todd, Trilby, Walter Mitty, Yahoo, Arthur, King Arthur, Galahad, Sir Galahad, Gawain, Sir Gawain, Guinevere, Guenevere, Lancelot, Sir Lancelot, Merlin