personage vs head honcho

head honcho vs personage

personage and head honcho both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
personage	Yes	No	No	No
head honcho	Yes	No	No	No

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

personage: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
head honcho: an important influential person

Other hyponyms of personage include big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, celebrity, famous person, behemoth, colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan, elder statesman, eminence grise, Excellency, fixer, 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)	head honcho (noun)
another word for person; a person not meriting identification	an important influential person
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

Difference between personage and head honcho

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