personage vs person

person vs personage

personage and person both are nouns.

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

As nouns, person is a hypernym of personage; that is, person is a word with a broader meaning than personage:

personage: another word for person; a person not meriting identification
person: a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

Other hypernyms of personage include individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul.

personage (noun)	person (noun)
another word for person; a person not meriting identification	a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events	a human body (usually including the clothing)
	a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

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