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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" [syn: character, role, theatrical role, part, persona]
2: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" [syn: persona, image]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural personae or personas) Etymology: Latin Date: 1909 1. a character assumed by an author in a written work 2. a. plural personas [New Latin, from Latin] an individual's social facade or front that especially in the analytic psychology of C. G. Jung reflects the role in life the individual is playing — compare anima b. the personality that a person (as an actor or politician) projects in public ; image 3. plural personae a character in a fictional presentation (as a novel or play) — usually used in plural <comic personae>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. personae) 1 an aspect of the personality as shown to or perceived by others (opp. ANIMA). 2 Literary criticism an author's assumed character in his or her writing. Phrases and idioms: persona grata a person, esp. a diplomat, acceptable to certain others. persona non grata a person not acceptable. Etymology: L (as PERSON)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Persona Per*so"na, n.; pl. Person[ae]. [L.] (Biol.) Same as Person, n., 8.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(personas, or personae) Someone's persona is the aspect of their character or nature that they present to other people, perhaps in contrast to their real character or nature. (FORMAL) ...the contradictions between her private life and the public persona... = image N-COUNT see also persona non grata

Moby Thesaurus

an existence, anima, article, being, body, character, coconscious, collective unconscious, conscience, conscious self, creature, critter, death instinct, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, entelechy, entity, ethical self, exterior, facade, face, foreconscious, front, guise, id, identity, individual, integer, item, libidinal energy, libido, life, mask, mind, module, monad, motive force, object, organism, part, person, personality, pleasure principle, point, preconscious, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, racial unconscious, role, self, single, singleton, something, soul, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, thing, unconscious, unconscious mind, unit, vital impulse