Usually means: Essence of a person's qualities.
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We found 78 dictionaries that define the word character:

General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. character: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. character: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. character: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. character: Collins English Dictionary
  5. character: Vocabulary.com
  6. Character, character, character, character: Wordnik
  7. character: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. character: Wiktionary
  9. character: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. character: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. character: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. character: Dictionary.com
  13. character: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. character: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Character (Dark Tranquillity album), Character (animation), Character (arts), Character (computing), Character (fiction), Character (film), Character (income tax), Character (mathematics), Character (novel), Character (sign), Character (symbol), Character: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Character: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. character: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. character: Rhymezone
  19. character: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. character: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. character: MyWord.info
  22. Character, Character: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. character: Free Dictionary
  24. character: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. character: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. character: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. character: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  5. character: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY
  6. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Character (disambiguation), character: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. character: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. character: Netlingo
  3. Character, character: CCI Computer
  4. Character: Cybernetics and Systems
  5. character: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  6. Character: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  7. Character: Unicode Glossary
  8. Webopedia (No longer online)
  9. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Character (disambiguation), character: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Character (disambiguation), character: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  2. character: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Character: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dinosaurs (No longer online)
  2. Character: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. character: Evolution Glossary
  7. character, character, character, character, character (of an algebra): PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  8. character: Natural History Terms
  9. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. character: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Character: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. character: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Character: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. character: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See charactering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A being involved in the action of a story.
noun:  (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
noun:  (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
noun:  (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
noun:  (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
noun:  (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
noun:  (countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
noun:  (countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
noun:  (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
noun:  (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown.
noun:  (countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
noun:  (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
noun:  (countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
noun:  (countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) Personal appearance.
verb:  (obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.

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