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personage vs kingpin

kingpin vs personage

personage and kingpin both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
personage Yes No No No
kingpin Yes No No No
As nouns, kingpin is a hyponym of personage; that is, kingpin is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than personage:
  • personage: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
  • kingpin: the most important person in a group or undertaking
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, heavy hitter, hierarch, high-muck-a-muck, pooh-bah, kingmaker, bigwig, 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) kingpin (noun)
another word for person; a person not meriting identification bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins
the most important person in a group or undertaking
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