protagonist
protagonist
Definition
pro·tago·nist (prō tag′ə nist)
noun
- the main character in a drama, novel, or story, around whom the action centers
- a person who plays a leading or active part
Etymology: Gr prōtagōnistēs < prōtos, first + agōnistēs, actor < agōnizesthai: see agonize
protagonist
Synonyms
protagonist
n.
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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