Usually means: Main character driving the story.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word protagonist:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. protagonist: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. protagonist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. protagonist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. protagonist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. protagonist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Protagonist, protagonist: Wordnik
  7. protagonist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. protagonist: Wiktionary
  9. protagonist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. protagonist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. protagonist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. protagonist: Dictionary.com
  13. protagonist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. protagonist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Protagonist (Persona 3), Protagonist (disambiguation), Protagonist (film), Protagonist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Protagonist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. protagonist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. protagonist: Rhymezone
  19. protagonist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. protagonist: Free Dictionary
  21. protagonist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. protagonist: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protagonist: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protagonist: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (authorship) The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
noun:  A leading person in a contest; a principal performer.
noun:  (proscribed) An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.

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