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round character

[ round kar-ik-ter ]

noun

  1. a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of round character1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

The teachers’ project falls apart when tragedy befalls one “Another Round” character, but alcohol reasserts its magical powers during the film’s grand finale.

I’m, like, an old, round character actress now.

He is a round character like the rest of us.

Thomas Cromwell is a marvelous prism and a phenomenally round character, but by the time we’ve had 1,700 pages of him, he is drastically overdetermined.

“She’s a round character, so she changes a lot,” Ms. Westbroek said.

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