Word

fictitious character, n.

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 16 freq. cnt.: 16

character fictional character fictitious character

sample sentences

"she is the main character in the novel"

semantic pointers

hypernym

imaginary being, imaginary creature

instance hyponym

Aladdin Argonaut Babar Beatrice Beowulf Bluebeard Bond, James Bond Brer Rabbit Bunyan, Paul Bunyan John Henry Cheshire cat Chicken Little Cinderella Colonel Blimp Dracula Don Quixote El Cid Fagin Falstaff, Sir John Falstaff Father Brown Faust, Faustus Frankenstein Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster Goofy Gulliver Hamlet Horatio Hornblower, Captain Horatio Hornblower Iago Inspector Maigret, Commissaire Maigret Kilroy Lear, King Lear Lilliputian Marlowe, Philip Marlowe Micawber, Wilkins Micawber Mother Goose Mr. Moto Othello Pangloss Pantaloon Perry Mason Peter Pan Pied Piper, Pied Piper of Hamelin Pierrot Pluto Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn Rip van Winkle Ruritanian Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes Tom Sawyer Uncle Remus Uncle Tom Uncle Sam Sherlock Holmes, Holmes Simon Legree Sinbad the Sailor, Sinbad Snoopy Ali Baba Emile Houyhnhnm Little John Little Red Riding Hood Raskolnikov, Rodya Raskolnikov Robin Hood Robinson Crusoe Rumpelstiltskin Shylock Tristan, Tristram Iseult, Isolde Scaramouch, Scaramouche Svengali Todd, Sweeney Todd Trilby Walter Mitty Yahoo Arthur, King Arthur Galahad, Sir Galahad Gawain, Sir Gawain Guinevere, Guenevere Lancelot, Sir Lancelot Merlin

hyponym

protagonist, agonist