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Noun important person has 1 sense
- important person(n = noun.person) influential person, personage - a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events; Array is a kind of adult, grownup
has particulars: 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, very important person, vip, worthy
THESAURUS
important person
Establishment, VIP, baron, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, brass, brass hat, celebrity, chief, constellation, cynosure, dean, dignitary, dignity, doyen, doyenne, elder, father, figure, folk hero, galaxy, great man, hero, heroine, high priest, idol, immortal, interests, kingfish, kingpin, leader, lion, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, man of mark, master, master spirit, mogul, nabob, name, notability, notable, panjandrum, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, principal, public figure, ruling circle, sachem, senior, social lion, somebody, something, star, superior, superstar, the great, the top, top brass, top dog, top people, tycoon, very important person, worthy
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