1. personage(n = noun.person) - another word for person; a person not meriting identification; "a strange personage appeared at the door"
is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
2. personage(n = noun.person) important person, influential person - a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events;
is a kind of adult, grownup
has particulars: big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho, celebrity, famous person, behemoth, colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan, elder statesman, eminence grise, excellency, fixer, influence peddler, heavy hitter, hierarch, high-muck-a-muck, pooh-bah, kingmaker, bigwig, kingpin, top banana, magnifico, figure, name, public figure, nepotist, policy maker, power broker, powerbroker, sacred cow, sirdar, socialite, sun, dignitary, high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, vip, worthy
1. Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. Hayward. [1913 Webster]
"The damsel well did view his personage." [1913 Webster]
2. Character assumed or represented. [1913 Webster]
3. A notable or distinguished person; a conspicuous or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
personage, n.
1 a person, esp. of rank or importance.
2 a character in a play etc.
Etymology:
ME f. PERSON + -AGE, infl. by med.L personagium effigy & F personnage
N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.