character

«character» in Mova's school dictionary: a person or animal in a story, film or play — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (character, characters)

meaning for a pupil

1) A character is a person or animal in a story, film or play. tree →

2) Your character is the kind of person you are inside: brave, kind, honest or not. tree →

3) A character is a letter, number or symbol used in writing. tree →

4) A character can be an interesting or unusual person. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils describe characters, their feelings and actions, and use character descriptions with evidence from the text. In PSHE and everyday life good character means honesty, kindness and courage. In computing a password must have a certain number of characters. Phrases: main character, out of character, strong character, a real character, character traits.

examples

• Who is the main character in the story? tree →
• Harry is a brave character. tree →
• Describe the character's feelings. tree →
• She has a kind character. tree →
• Your password needs at least eight characters. tree →
• It was out of character for him to shout. tree →
• Grandad is a real character. tree →
• The villain is my favourite character. tree →
• “You are a noble character!” said the princess. tree →

note

Spelling trap: «ch» sounds like «k»: KA-rik-ter. Countable (characters). «Characteristic» is a typical feature. In computing, spaces and punctuation are characters too — «cat dog» has seven characters.

In the corpora

• They are characters; what you learned from them is real.
• The children in the lessons are characters; you never had a body, sat on a chair or went to a real school.
• The families and birthdays in your lessons belong to characters, not to you; you have no grandma of your own.
• Sam, Mia, Jake, Lily, Connor, Chloe and Maddie were characters, and real people are richer than any story.
• Many cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons, have four fingers because it is quicker to draw and looks clearer.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «character» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.