Català > personatge fictici: 1 sentit > nom 1, person Sentit | An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story). |
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Espècimens | Aladí | In the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie |
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Ali Baba, Alí Babà | The fictional woodcutter who discovered that 'open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment |
Barbablava | (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women |
Beatrice | The woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy |
Caputxeta Vermella | A girl in a fairy tale who meets / meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother |
Chicken Little | A fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling |
Colonel Blimp | A pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low |
Don Quijote, Don Quixote | The hero of a romance by Cervantes |
Dracula | fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker |
El Cid | The hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century |
El flautista d'Hamelín | The title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning |
Falstaff | A dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays |
Father Brown, Pare Brown | A Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton |
Faust | An alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge |
Gat de Cheshire | A fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face |
Guinevere, Reina Ginebra | (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur |
Horatio Hornblower | A fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester |
Huckleberry Finn | A mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain |
Iago | The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife |
Iseult, Isolda | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other |
James Bond | British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming |
John Henry | hero of American folk tales |
King Arthur, Rei Artur, Rei Artús | A legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure) |
Lancelot | (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table |
Little John | legendary follower of Robin Hood |
Oncle Sam | A personification of the United States government |
Oncle Tom, Tom | A servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Paul Bunyan | A legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada |
Perry Mason | fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner |
Peter Pan | The main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie |
Philip Marlowe | tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler |
Pierrot | A male character in French pantomime |
Rei Lear | The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters |
Robin Hood | legendary English outlaw of the 12th century |
Robinson Crusoe | The hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island |
Sherlock Holmes | A fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle |
Sinbad | In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages |
Sweeney Todd | fictional character in a play by George Pitt |
Tarzan | A man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Tom Sawyer | The boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain |
Tristan, Tristany, Tristram | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other |
Ventafocs | A fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince |
argonauta, Argonauta | (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece |
lil·liputenc | A 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift |
Específic | protagonista | The principal character in a work of fiction |
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General | criatura imaginària, ésser imaginari | A creature / creature of the imagination |
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Anglès | fictional character, fictitious character, character |
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Espanyol | personaje ficticio |
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