Meaning of persona in English

persona

/pəˈsəʊ.nə/ us

/pɚˈsoʊ.nə/

plural personae uk/pəˈsəʊ.niː/ us/pɚˈsoʊ.niː/ personas

the particular type of character that a person seems to have and that is often different from their real or private character:

He had a shy, retiring side to his personality that was completely at odds with his public persona.

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(Definition of persona from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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persona

noun [ C ]

/pərˈsoʊ·nə/

plural personas or personae us/pərˈsoʊ·ni/

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the particular type of character that a person seems to have, which is often different from the real or private character that person has:

the senator’s public persona

literature

A persona is also the voice in which an author writes a story or poem

(Definition of persona from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of persona

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As it emerged in the first years of the twentieth century, his scenario presented him in different national personas.

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These partners viewed the person's ' dysfunctional ' behaviours as indicating helplessness and confusion rather than seeing them as presentational cues to the person's preferred persona.

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There are hints, however, that help us to associate the vocal persona with the fluctuating emotions in the accompaniment.

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This delicate relationship could all too easily have been destroyed through the application of an unsympathetic performance persona.

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Rock singers are actors, after all - they portray the persona represented as speaking through the song lyrics and different personae through different songs.

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In the next stanza she takes on the persona of a victim who wakes up to find flood waters at her door, preventing her escape.

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It was a persona both cultivated by her and thrust upon her.

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The judges are influenced by their upbringing, persona l prejudices, and all sorts of extralegal whatnot.

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Long neglected by scholars, these early essays offer insight into the author's evolving persona.

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As so often in premodern comedy, these are stage personae in barely fictionalized roles, their 'character' limited to their servant function.

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Quotations are not necessarily icons of the actual words of actual speakers but rather are icons of credible utterances from culturally specific types of personas.

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The personae character drawings with descriptive text indicate the articulating inner forces that shape and form the subjective character of immediate intuitive apprehension.

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This programme was used to code and analyse the data for various discourse markers of the residents' self and personae.

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In a theatrical performance it is vital that an actor dissolves his/her social persona.

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In the present study, we initially set out to examine the discursive interactions of residents and staff in terms of co-constructed personae.

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