personify
verb/pə(ɹ)ˈsɒnɪfaɪ/
Etymology
From French personnifier. By surface analysis, person + -ify or person(a) + -ify.
- derived from personnifier
Definitions
To be an example of
To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.
- Mozart could be said to personify musical genius.
To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona.
- The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.
- If ever any of the girls had taken a fancy to personify their good genius, they would certainly have given to his image all they remembered of "Uncle Frank."
The neighborhood
- synonymembody
- neighborpersonification
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for personify. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA