personage vs fixer

fixer vs personage

personage and fixer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
personage	Yes	No	No	No
fixer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fixer is a hyponym of personage; that is, fixer is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than personage:

personage: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
fixer: someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)

Other hyponyms of personage include big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho, celebrity, famous person, behemoth, colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan, elder statesman, eminence grise, Excellency, influence peddler, heavy hitter, hierarch, high-muck-a-muck, pooh-bah, kingmaker, bigwig, kingpin, top banana, magnifico, figure, name, public figure, nepotist, policy maker, power broker, powerbroker, sacred cow, sirdar, socialite, sun, dignitary, high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP, worthy.

personage (noun)	fixer (noun)
another word for person; a person not meriting identification	synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events	someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)
	a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
	a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)

Difference between personage and fixer

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