Nouns starting with C

• characin — Noun – English ～ any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae
• Characinidae — Noun – English ～ former name of the Characidae
• character — Noun – English ～ an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"
• character — Noun – English ～ a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively"
• character — Noun – English ～ (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
• character — Noun – English ～ a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
• character — Noun – English ～ good repute; "he is a man of character"
• character actor — Noun – English ～ an actor who specializes in playing supporting roles
• character — Noun – English ～ the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer
• character — Noun – English ～ an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
• character — Noun – English ～ a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
• character — Noun – English ～ a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"
• character assassination — Noun – English ～ an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
• characterisation — Noun – English ～ a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
• characterisation — Noun – English ～ the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features; "the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd"
• characteristic — Noun – English ～ any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
• characteristic — Noun – English ～ the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
• characteristic — Noun – English ～ a prominent attribute or aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics"
• characteristic — Noun – English ～ a distinguishing quality
• characterization — Noun – English ～ acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

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