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protagonist Definition

pro·tago·nist (prō tagə nist)

noun

  1. the main character in a drama, novel, or story, around whom the action centers
  2. a person who plays a leading or active part

Etymology: Gr prōtagōnistēs < prōtos, first + agōnistēs, actor < agōnizesthai: see agonize

protagonist Synonyms

protagonist

n.

leading character, lead, exemplar, hero, heroine, warrior, combatant; see also hero 1, idol 2.

protagonist Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • involve: To enhance collaborative research involving protagonists from one or more of the two communities.
  • become: May the peoples of Africa become the protagonists of their own future and their own cultural, civil, social and economic development!
  • feature: Where my books feature a child protagonist, that protagonist is always black.
  • play: All the main events from the movie happen as expected, and the actors who play the three protagonists also reprise their roles here.

Adjective modifier

  • eponymous: Now the Pokemon TCG revisits the eponymous protagonists in EX: Team Rocket Returns.
  • unnamed: This observation best reflects Lucking's thesis that language is an " unnamed protagonist " in the plays.
  • female: I just did notes on a studio project where the female protagonist had a series of blind dates in a number of foreign locales.
  • main: Let's just hope all the main protagonists turn up to what could be the best race for decades!
  • teenage: Three teenage protagonists in the elite PIC unit of Special Branch, fight crime on the streets of London.
  • male: Amidst these good girls, we run a gamut of attitudes toward their male protagonists.

Noun used with modifier

  • title: The title protagonists will have their work cut out to emerge on top of a highly competitive field of R400 runners.
  • child: Where my books feature a child protagonist, that protagonist is always black.

Possessives

  • life: The melody line is far bluesier than the protagonist's former life would have led you to expect.
  • name: The feeling of the landscape reflects the feeling of the protagonist's name, and in the Creole word the two overlap.

Possessives

  • film: There's Sarah ( McDonald ), the film's main protagonist, still suffering from a personal loss.
  • game: Alan Wake, the game's protagonist, is a bestselling horror writer, who writes a novel about his darkest nightmares.

Preposition: in

  • debate: He looks to the right of the artist as if facing a protagonist in debate.

Preposition: of

  • novel: Because in the end the protagonists of this novel are members of the same class that is in government ­ if not in power.
  • story: In a series of harrowing misadventures the six-year-old protagonist of this shocking story of survival in WWII Poland endures on wits and luck alone.
  • film: Joe's biggest rival on Team USA is their spokesman Mark Zupan, the other key protagonist of the film.

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