'Personate' definitions:
Definition of 'personate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: pose, impersonate, personate]
verb
Attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: personify, personate]
Definition of 'Personate'
From: GCIDE
- Personate \Per"son*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Personated; p. pr. & vb. n. Personating.] [L. personare to cry out, LL., to extol. See Person.] To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Personate'
From: GCIDE
- Personate \Per"son*ate\, v. t. [L. personatus masked, assumed, fictitious, fr. persona a mask. See Person.]
- 1. To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; to impersonate[3]; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. [R.] "A personated mate." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To personify; to typify; to describe. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Personate'
From: GCIDE
- Personate \Per"son*ate\, v. i. To play or assume a character. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Personate'
From: GCIDE
- Personate \Per"son*ate\, a. [L. personatus masked.] (Bot.) Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'personate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act,
- act a part,
- act as,
- act out,
- adumbrate,
- ape,
- body forth,
- copy,
- create a role,
- demonstrate,
- depict,
- do,
- embody,
- enact,
- exemplify,
- figure,
- foreshadow,
- illustrate,
- image,
- impersonate,
- incarnate,
- masquerade as,
- mime,
- mimic,
- mirror,
- pantomime,
- pass for,
- perform,
- personify,
- play,
- play a part,
- play a role,
- play opposite,
- portray,
- pose as,
- prefigure,
- pretend to be,
- pretypify,
- project,
- realize,
- reflect,
- represent,
- shadow,
- shadow forth,
- support,
- sustain a part,
- take a part,
- take off
Words containing 'Personate'
- In person,
- In the person of,
- Person,
- Personable,
- Personal,
- Personalism,
- Personalities,
- Personality,
- Personalize,
- Personalized,
- Personalizing,
- Personally,
- Personated,
- Personating,
- Personation,
- Personator,
- Personeity,
- Personize,
- for each person,
- of each person,
- person to person,
- personableness,
- personalization,
- persons,
- person-to-person,
- A respecter of persons,
- Artificial person,
- False personation,
- Fictitious person,
- Legal person,
- Natural person,
- Person County,
- Person, NC,
- Personal action,
- Personal equation,
- Personal estate,
- Personal identity,
- Personal pronoun,
- Personal property,
- Personal representatives,
- Personal rights,
- Personal servitude,
- Personal tithes,
- Personal verb,
- Things personal,
- Third person,
- To have respect of persons,
- To respect the person,
- To respect the persons,
- To truss a person,
- White person,
- abandoned person,
- aliterate person,
- anal personality,
- bad person,
- bereaved person,
- bisexual person,
- black person,
- blind person,
- clumsy person,
- colored person,
- common person,
- crabby person,
- creative person,
- cult of personality,
- dead person,
- deaf person,
- deceased person,
- disagreeable person,
- diseased person,
- displaced person,
- disreputable person,
- double personality,
- dual personality,
- eccentric person,
- emotional person,
- english person,
- enlisted person,
- epicene person,
- famous person,
- fat person,
- female person,
- first person,
- forgetful person,
- french person,
- genital personality,
- good person,
- handicapped person,
- heterosexual person,
- holy person,
- homeless person,
- hunted person,
- illiterate person,
- important person,
- in-person,
- incompetent person,
- inexperienced person,
- influential person,
- insured person,
- irish person,
- juvenile person,
- large person,
- learned person,
- literate person,
- male person,
- married person,
- multiple personality,
- narcissistic personality,
- nonreligious person,
- nude person,
- old person,
- oral personality,
- oriental person,
- person agreement,
- person hour,
- person of color,
- person of colour,
- personal appeal,
- personal business,
- personal care,
- personal chattel,
- personal check,
- personal cheque,
- personal computer,
- personal effects,
- personal expense,
- personal foul,
- personal income,
- personal judgement,
- personal judgment,
- personal letter,
- personal loan,
- personal magnetism,
- personal manner,
- personal matters,
- personal memory,
- personal organiser,
- personal organizer,
- personal relation,
- personal relationship,
- personal representative,
- personal wealth,
- personality assessment,
- personality disorder,
- personality inventory,
- personality test,
- plastic person,
- poor person,
- primitive person,
- professional person,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychotic person,
- religious person,
- retired person,
- rich person,
- schizotypal personality,
- scholarly person,
- second person,
- selfish person,
- shy person,
- sick person,
- silent person,
- sleepless person,
- slovenly person,
- small person,
- sociopathic personality,
- split personality,
- stateless person,
- straight person,
- street person,
- stupid person,
- thin person,
- uneducated person,
- unemotional person,
- unemployed person,
- unfortunate person,
- ungrateful person,
- unkind person,
- unpleasant person,
- unskilled person,
- unsuccessful person,
- unusual person,
- unwelcome person,
- very important person,
- wealthy person,
- working person,
- young person,
- Person County, NC,
- To give a person line,
- To play into a person's hands,
- To tar and feather a person,
- anal retentive personality,
- antisocial personality disorder,
- california personality inventory,
- eysenck personality inventory,
- one-person,
- personal credit line,
- personal digital assistant,
- personal identification number,
- personal line of credit,
- public relations person,
- to go over the head of a person,
- visually impaired person,
- To keep a person on a short leash,
- association for the advancement of retired persons,
- color-blind person,
- deaf-and-dumb person,
- minnesota multiphasic personality inventory,
- obsessive-compulsive personality,
- self-employed person,
- sixteen personality factor questionnaire,
- self-report personality inventory