Character Edit Meaning

1.

an interesting eccentric person

Oh, Tom, you're such a character.

See Awesome

2.

n.

1. What a person is really like. Their values, personality, and level of integrity...when no one's looking.

2. One's moral compass.

"...judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." --Martin luther king"

"Our employees are commited to treating you fairly, and are posessed of the highest character."

LACKEY: "The guy can't be bought. He's got character"

CRIME BOSS: "We'll have to wack him then."

See makeup, quality, moral fiber, personality, temperament

3.

The true you when no one is around.

see: integrity

Who you are when you around people means nothing, but it is character that determines your real person.

See personality, integrity, spirit, krock1dk

4.

An alcoholic (euphemism). Used by local newspapers when reporting the death of winos. Usually a "character" is of no fixed abode, or at least of very limited means.

Respectable dead alcoholics, by contrast, are merely "convivial"; even if they are crazed ranters they would be "convivial and garrulous".

"Mr Brew was a popular local character, normally to be found by the war memorial in the high street".

See streetwise, colourful, gregarious, boisterous

5.

1)In some contexts, the title imaginary friend might be misleading. In these cases, the term 'character' is uses.

2)An alternative word for imaginary friend, to be used in the presence of narrow minded and/or unimaginative people.

1) "Well, they're more than 'imaginary friends'. They're characters.

2) "Meep, can you send my characters back? "

See Peeves