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Meaning of 'personate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Personate [ a.]
- 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.
2 . Personate [ v. i.]
- To play or assume a character.
3 . Personate [ v. t.]
- To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
- To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.
- To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
- To personify; to typify; to describe.

Meaning of 'personate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . personate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
Example in sentence:
  • She posed as the Czar's daughter
Meaning (2):
- attribute human qualities to something
Example in sentence:
  • The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous

Nearby Words:

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