| character | | |
| n. (person) | 1. character, fictional character, fictitious character | an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story).; "she is the main character in the novel" |
| ~ imaginary being, imaginary creature | a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction. |
| ~ aladdin | in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie. |
| ~ argonaut | (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece. |
| ~ babar | an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children. |
| ~ beatrice | the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy. |
| ~ beowulf | the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon. |
| ~ bluebeard | (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience. |
| ~ james bond, bond | British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming. |
| ~ brer rabbit | the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in 1880. |
| ~ paul bunyan, bunyan | a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada.; "Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water" |
| ~ john henry | hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill. |
| ~ cheshire cat | a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll. |
| ~ chicken little | a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling. |
| ~ cinderella | a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince. |
| ~ colonel blimp | a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low. |
| ~ dracula | fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker. |
| ~ don quixote | the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical. |
| ~ el cid | the hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century. |
| ~ fagin | a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens.; "Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets" |
| ~ falstaff, sir john falstaff | a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays. |
| ~ father brown | a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton. |
| ~ faust, faustus | an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge. |
| ~ frankenstein | the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses. |
| ~ frankenstein's monster, frankenstein | the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation). |
| ~ goofy | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney. |
| ~ gulliver | a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ hamlet | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father. |
| ~ captain horatio hornblower, horatio hornblower | a fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester. |
| ~ iago | the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife. |
| ~ commissaire maigret, inspector maigret | a fictional detective in novels by Georges Simenon. |
| ~ kilroy | a nonexistent person popularized by American servicemen during World War II.; "Kilroy was here" |
| ~ king lear, lear | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters. |
| ~ lilliputian | a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ philip marlowe, marlowe | tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler. |
| ~ micawber, wilkins micawber | fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist. |
| ~ mother goose | the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes. |
| ~ mr. moto | Japanese sleuth created by John Marquand. |
| ~ othello | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife. |
| ~ pangloss | an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire. |
| ~ pantaloon | a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man. |
| ~ perry mason | fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner. |
| ~ peter pan | the main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up. |
| ~ pied piper of hamelin, pied piper | the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning. |
| ~ pierrot | a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face. |
| ~ pluto | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney. |
| ~ huck finn, huckleberry finn | a mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain. |
| ~ rip van winkle | the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens. |
| ~ ruritanian | an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania. |
| ~ tarzan of the apes, 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. |
| ~ uncle remus | the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880. |
| ~ uncle tom | a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| ~ uncle sam | a personification of the United States government. |
| ~ holmes, sherlock holmes | a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle. |
| ~ simon legree | the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| ~ sinbad, sinbad the sailor | in the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages. |
| ~ snoopy | a fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz. |
| ~ ali baba | the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment. |
| ~ emile | the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |
| ~ agonist, protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction. |
| ~ houyhnhnm | one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ little john | legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength. |
| ~ little red riding hood | a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother. |
| ~ raskolnikov, rodya raskolnikov | a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil. |
| ~ robin hood | legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor. |
| ~ robinson crusoe | the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island. |
| ~ rumpelstiltskin | a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself. |
| ~ shylock | a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare. |
| ~ tristan, 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. |
| ~ iseult, isolde | (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. |
| ~ scaramouch, scaramouche | a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward. |
| ~ svengali | the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically. |
| ~ sweeney todd, todd | fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers. |
| ~ trilby | singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali. |
| ~ walter mitty | fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs. |
| ~ yahoo | one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ king arthur, arthur | 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); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot. |
| ~ galahad, sir galahad | (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail. |
| ~ gawain, sir gawain | (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table. |
| ~ guenevere, guinevere | (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table. |
| ~ lancelot, sir lancelot | (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere. |
| ~ merlin | (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. character, lineament, quality | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something.; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" |
| ~ attribute, dimension, property | a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" |
| ~ texture | the essential quality of something.; "the texture of Neapolitan life" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. character, fiber, fibre | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions.; "education has for its object the formation of character" |
| ~ trait | a distinguishing feature of your personal nature. |
| ~ personality | the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual.; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" |
| ~ spirit | a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character. |
| ~ thoughtfulness | the trait of thinking carefully before acting. |
| ~ responsibleness, responsibility | a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct.; "he holds a position of great responsibility" |
| ~ integrity | moral soundness.; "he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. character, part, persona, role, theatrical role | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play.; "she played the part of Desdemona" |
| ~ personation, portrayal, characterization, enactment | acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture. |
| ~ bit part, minor role | a small role. |
| ~ heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play. |
| ~ hero | the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem. |
| ~ ingenue | the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play. |
| ~ name part, title role | the role of the character after whom the play is named. |
| ~ heroine | the main good female character in a work of fiction. |
| ~ baddie, villain | the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction. |
| n. (person) | 5. case, character, eccentric, type | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities).; "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" |
| ~ adult, grownup | a fully developed person from maturity onward. |
| n. (state) | 6. character | good repute.; "he is a man of character" |
| ~ reputation, repute | the state of being held in high esteem and honor. |
| n. (communication) | 7. character, character reference, reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability.; "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively" |
| ~ good word, recommendation, testimonial | something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable. |
| n. (communication) | 8. character, grapheme, graphic symbol | a written symbol that is used to represent speech.; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
| ~ printed symbol, written symbol | a written or printed symbol. |
| ~ allograph | a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme. |
| ~ check character | a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission. |
| ~ superscript, superior | a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character. |
| ~ subscript, inferior | a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character. |
| ~ ascii character | any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers. |
| ~ ligature | character consisting of two or more letters combined into one. |
| ~ capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital | one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis.; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" |
| ~ lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter | the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case. |
| ~ type | printed characters.; "small type is hard to read" |
| ~ percent sign, percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100. |
| ~ asterisk, star | a star-shaped character * used in printing. |
| ~ dagger, obelisk | a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. |
| ~ diesis, double dagger, double obelisk | a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. |
| ~ alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter | the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech.; "his grandmother taught him his letters" |
| ~ blank, space | a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing.; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" |
| ~ phonetic symbol | a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound. |
| ~ mathematical symbol | a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation. |
| ~ rune, runic letter | any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.; "each rune had its own magical significance" |
| ~ pictograph | a graphic character used in picture writing. |
| ~ ideogram, ideograph | a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it.; "Chinese characters are ideograms" |
| ~ radical | a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram. |
| ~ stenograph | a shorthand character. |
| n. (attribute) | 9. character | (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes. |
| ~ attribute | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity. |
| ~ unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene. |
| ~ genetic science, genetics | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms. |
| v. (contact) | 10. character | engrave or inscribe characters on. |
| ~ engrave, inscribe, grave, scratch | carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree" |
| custom | | |
| n. (act) | 1. custom, usage, usance | accepted or habitual practice. |
| ~ practice, pattern | a customary way of operation or behavior.; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern" |
| ~ americanism | a custom that is peculiar to the United States or its citizens. |
| ~ anglicism, britishism | a custom that is peculiar to England or its citizens. |
| ~ consuetude | a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law. |
| ~ couvade | a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child. |
| ~ germanism | a custom that is peculiar to Germany or its citizens. |
| ~ habit, use | (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition.; "owls have nocturnal habits"; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it" |
| ~ hijab | the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home.; "she observes the hijab and does not wear tight clothing" |
| ~ survival | something that survives. |
| ~ ritual, rite | any customary observance or practice. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. custom, tradition | a specific practice of long standing. |
| ~ practice | knowledge of how something is usually done.; "it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner" |
| ~ habit, wont | an established custom.; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening" |
| ~ hadith | (Islam) a tradition based on reports of the sayings and activities of Muhammad and his companions. |
| ~ institution | a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society.; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution of slavery"; "he had become an institution in the theater" |
| n. (possession) | 3. custom, customs, customs duty, impost | money collected under a tariff. |
| ~ tariff, duty | a government tax on imports or exports.; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries" |
| ~ ship money | an impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense. |
| n. (act) | 4. custom | habitual patronage.; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years" |
| ~ trade, patronage | the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.; "even before noon there was a considerable patronage" |
| adj. | 5. custom, custom-made | made according to the specifications of an individual. |
| ~ bespoke, bespoken, tailor-made, made-to-order, tailored | (of clothing) custom-made. |
| ~ custom-built, made-to-order | built for a particular individual. |
| disposition | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. disposition, temperament | your usual mood.; "he has a happy disposition" |
| ~ aloneness, lonesomeness, solitariness, loneliness | a disposition toward being alone. |
| ~ nature | the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions.; "it is his nature to help others" |
| ~ physicality, animalism | preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites. |
| ~ bloodthirstiness, bloodiness | a disposition to shed blood. |
| ~ heart, spirit | an inclination or tendency of a certain kind.; "he had a change of heart" |
| ~ nervousness | a sensitive or highly strung temperament. |
| ~ esprit de corps, team spirit, morale | the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed. |
| ~ moodiness | having temperamental and changeable moods. |
| ~ blood | temperament or disposition.; "a person of hot blood" |
| ~ cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine | the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom.; "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room" |
| ~ uncheerfulness | not conducive to cheer or good spirits. |
| ~ perfectionism | a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable.; "his perfectionism seemed excessive to his students" |
| ~ permissiveness, tolerance | a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior. |
| ~ unpermissiveness, restrictiveness | a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits. |
| ~ good nature | a cheerful, obliging disposition. |
| ~ agreeability, agreeableness | a temperamental disposition to be agreeable. |
| ~ ill nature | a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition. |
| ~ disagreeableness | an ill-tempered and offensive disposition. |
| ~ willingness | cheerful compliance.; "he expressed his willingness to help" |
| ~ involuntariness, unwillingness | the trait of being unwilling.; "his unwillingness to cooperate vetoed every proposal I made"; "in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton" |
| ~ friendliness | a friendly disposition. |
| ~ unsociability, unsociableness | an unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship. |
| ~ unfriendliness | an unfriendly disposition. |
| ~ calm, calmness, composure, equanimity | steadiness of mind under stress.; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity" |
| ~ discomposure | a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure. |
| ~ optimism | a general disposition to expect the best in all things. |
| ~ pessimism | a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things. |
| ~ epicurism | the disposition and habits of an epicure. |
| ~ gourmandism | the disposition and habits of a gourmand. |
| n. (act) | 2. disposal, disposition | the act or means of getting rid of something. |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ appointment | (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment.; "she allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment" |
| ~ comb-out | the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people.; "the department got a good comb-out" |
| ~ giving | disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return.; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving" |
| ~ abandonment | the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away. |
| ~ mine disposal | the disposal of explosive mines. |
| ~ sewage disposal | the disposal of sewage. |
| ~ lending, loaning | disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. disposition, inclination, tendency | an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others.; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" |
| ~ attitude, mental attitude | a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways.; "he had the attitude that work was fun" |
| ~ direction | a general course along which something has a tendency to develop.; "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "his ideals determined the direction of his career"; "they proposed a new direction for the firm" |
| ~ trend, drift, movement | a general tendency to change (as of opinion).; "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" |
| ~ call | a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course.; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call" |
| ~ denominationalism | the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations. |
| ~ devices | an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'.; "eventually the family left the house to the devices of this malevolent force"; "the children were left to their own devices" |
| ~ sympathy, understanding | an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion.; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding" |
| ~ favoritism, favouritism | an inclination to favor some person or group. |
| ~ proclivity, leaning, propensity | a natural inclination.; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration" |
| ~ bent, set | a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way.; "the set of his mind was obvious" |
| ~ literalism | a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense. |
| ~ perseveration | the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it. |
| ~ predisposition | an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way. |
| ~ favour, favor | an inclination to approve.; "that style is in favor this season" |
| ~ dislike, disfavor, disfavour, disapproval | an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group. |
| ~ partisanship, partiality | an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives. |
| ~ impartiality, nonpartisanship | an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. disposition | a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing.; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture" |
| ~ property | a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class.; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" |
| ~ aptness, propensity | a disposition to behave in a certain way.; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread" |
| ~ mordacity | a disposition to biting. |
| ~ predisposition | a disposition in advance to react in a particular way. |
| ~ proneness | being disposed to do something.; "accident proneness" |
| ~ separatism | a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists.; "separatism is a serious problem in Quebec"; "demands for some form of separatism on grounds of religion have been perceived as a threat to mainstream education" |
| ~ tendency, inclination | a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect.; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink" |
| habit | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. habit, wont | an established custom.; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening" |
| ~ custom, tradition | a specific practice of long standing. |
| n. (act) | 2. habit, use | (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition.; "owls have nocturnal habits"; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it" |
| ~ custom, usage, usance | accepted or habitual practice. |
| ~ ritual | stereotyped behavior. |
| ~ second nature | acquired behavior that is practiced so long it seems innate. |
| ~ psychological science, psychology | the science of mental life. |
| ~ cleanliness | the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. habit | a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order. |
| ~ attire, garb, dress | clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.; "formal attire"; "battle dress" |
| ~ frock | a habit worn by clerics. |
| ~ monastic habit | a long loose habit worn by monks in a monastery. |
| ~ nun's habit | a long loose habit worn by nuns in a convent. |
| ~ faith, religion, religious belief | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.; "he lost his faith but not his morality" |
| n. (process) | 4. habit | the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal).; "a shrub of spreading habit" |
| ~ growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. habit, riding habit | attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire). |
| ~ attire, garb, dress | clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.; "formal attire"; "battle dress" |
| ~ jodhpur breeches, jodhpurs, riding breeches | flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots. |
| ~ riding boot | a boot without laces that is worn for riding horses; part of a riding habit. |
| n. (act) | 6. drug abuse, habit, substance abuse | excessive use of drugs. |
| ~ misuse, abuse | improper or excessive use.; "alcohol abuse"; "the abuse of public funds" |
| ~ alcohol abuse, alcoholic abuse, alcoholism abuse | excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic drinks. |
| v. (body) | 7. habit | put a habit on. |
| ~ apparel, clothe, enclothe, garb, garment, raiment, tog, dress, fit out, habilitate | provide with clothes or put clothes on.; "Parents must feed and dress their child" |
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