personage vs very important person

very important person vs personage

personage and very important person both are nouns.

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

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

personage: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
very important person: an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

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, 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, VIP, worthy.

personage (noun)	very important person (noun)
another word for person; a person not meriting identification	an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

Difference between personage and very important person

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