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

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CIDE DICTIONARY

personage, n. [F. personnage.].

Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. Hayward. [1913 Webster]
"The damsel well did view his personage." [1913 Webster]
Character assumed or represented. [1913 Webster]
A notable or distinguished person; a conspicuous or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

personage, n.
1 a person, esp. of rank or importance.
2 a character in a play etc.

Etymology

ME f. PERSON + -AGE, infl. by med.L personagium effigy & F personnage

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THESAURUS

personage

Adamite, Establishment, VIP, actor, antagonist, antihero, baron, being, big gun, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, bit, bit part, body, brass, brass hat, cast, cat, celebrity, chap, character, chief, constellation, creature, cue, customer, cynosure, dean, dignitary, dignity, doyen, doyenne, duck, earthling, elder, eminence, fat part, father, feeder, fellow, figure, folk hero, galaxy, great man, groundling, guy, hand, head, headliner, heavy, hero, heroine, high priest, homo, hotshot, human, human being, idol, immortal, important person, individual, ingenue, interests, joker, kingfish, kingpin, lead, lead role, leader, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, life, lines, lion, living soul, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, man, man of mark, master, master spirit, mogul, mortal, nabob, name, nose, notability, notable, one, panjandrum, part, party, person, person of note, person of renown, personality, piece, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, principal, protagonist, public figure, role, ruling circle, sachem, senior, side, single, social lion, somebody, someone, something, soubrette, soul, star, straight part, superior, superstar, supporting character, supporting role, tellurian, terran, the great, the top, title role, top brass, top dog, top people, tycoon, very important person, villain, walk-on, walking part, worldling, worthy

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ROGET THESAURUS

personage

Mankind

N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.

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