personage vs heavy hitter

heavy hitter vs personage

personage and heavy hitter both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
personage	Yes	No	No	No
heavy hitter	Yes	No	No	No

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

personage: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
heavy hitter: an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in

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, fixer, influence peddler, 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)	heavy hitter (noun)
another word for person; a person not meriting identification	an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

Difference between personage and heavy hitter

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