the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper |
the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing |
a particular type of thing | all of the tokens of the same symbol |
the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc. | printed characters |
a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
| a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) |