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Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
Ann Beattie

Meaning of "protagonist" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROTAGONIST

From Greek prōtagōnistēs, from prōtos first + agōnistēs actor.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROTAGONIST

protagonist  [prəʊˈtæɡənɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROTAGONIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Protagonist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROTAGONIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

protagonist

Protagonist

A protagonist (from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (protagonistes), meaning "one who plays the first part, chief actor") is the main character (the central or primary personal figure) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic or musical narrative, who enters conflict because of the antagonist. The audience is intended to mostly identify with the protagonist. In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played every main dramatic role in a tragedy; the protagonist played the leading role while the other roles were played by the deuteragonist and the tritagonist. The terms protagonist and main character are variously explained and depending on the source, may denote different concepts. In fiction, the story of the protagonist can be told from the perspective of a different character (who may also but not necessarily, be the narrator). An example would be a narrator who relates the fate of several protagonists - perhaps as prominent figures recalled in a biographical perspective.

Definition of protagonist in the English dictionary

The definition of protagonist in the dictionary is the principal character in a play, story, etc. Other definition of protagonist is a supporter, esp when important or respected, of a cause, political party, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROTAGONIST


agonist
ˈæɡənɪst
antagonist
ænˈtæɡənɪst
cosmogonist
kɒzˈmɒɡənɪst
deuteragonist
ˌdjuːtəˈræɡənɪst
educationist
ˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃənɪst
exhibitionist
ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃənɪst
expressionist
ɪkˈsprɛʃənɪst
humanist
ˈhjuːmənɪst
impressionist
ɪmˈprɛʃənɪst
modernist
ˈmɒdənɪst
nutritionist
njuːˈtrɪʃənɪst
organist
ˈɔːɡənɪst
paganist
ˈpeɪɡənɪst
perfectionist
pəˈfɛkʃənɪst
pianist
ˈpɪənɪst
receptionist
rɪˈsɛpʃənɪst
theogonist
θɪˈɒɡənɪst
tobogganist
təˈbɒɡənɪst
tritagonist
trɪˈtæɡənɪst
Zionist
ˈzaɪənɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROTAGONIST

protactinium
protagonism
Protagoras
protamine
protandrous
protandry
protanomalous
protanomaly
protanope
protanopia
protanopic
protases
protasis
protatic
protea
proteaceous
protean
Proteas
protease
protease inhibitor

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROTAGONIST

abortionist
accordionist
anti-Zionist
balloonist
cartoonist
colonist
communist
conservationist
constructionist
dental receptionist
evolutionist
fashionist
hotel receptionist
percussionist
precisionist
projectionist
reductionist
revolutionist
saxophonist
trade unionist
unionist

Synonyms and antonyms of protagonist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROTAGONIST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «protagonist» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of protagonist

Translation of «protagonist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROTAGONIST

Find out the translation of protagonist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of protagonist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «protagonist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

倡导者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

protagonista
570 millions of speakers

English

protagonist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नायक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بطل الرواية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

герой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

protagonista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নায়ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

champion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Protagonis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verfechter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

主唱者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주창자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Protagonist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhân vật chính
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கதாநாயகன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नाटक इ मधील प्रमुख पात्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kahraman
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fautore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bohater
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

герой
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

protagonist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρωταγωνιστής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

protagonis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

huvudperson
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

protagonist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of protagonist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTAGONIST»

The term «protagonist» is quite widely used and occupies the 26.063 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTAGONIST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «protagonist» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «protagonist» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about protagonist

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10 QUOTES WITH «PROTAGONIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word protagonist.
1
Monica Ali
People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
3
Ann Beattie
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
4
Satya Bhabha
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
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Daniel Clowes
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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Alex Cox
Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist.
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Christopher Darden
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.
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Christopher Darden
It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
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Matthew Davis
To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.
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Ted Dekker
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTAGONIST»

Discover the use of protagonist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to protagonist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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No Kidding!: Clown as Protagonist in Twentieth-century Theatre
No Kidding!
Donald McManus, 2003
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The Multi-Protagonist Film
This volume provides elegant analyses of a variety of films to help chart the genre’s evolution and to explore the complexity, mixed messaging, and signal changes that define the multi-protagonist film in the current age.
María del Mar Azcona, 2011
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A Plot of Her Own: The Female Protagonist in Russian Literature
The female protagonists in the works examined are inextricably linked with the fundamental issues raised by the novels they inform; the interpretations offered strive not to be reductive or doctrinaire, not to be imposed from the outside ...
Sona Stephan Hoisington, 1995
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A Guide to Screenwriting Success: Writing for Film and ...
So, the second half of act two is about the protagonist losing a lot of the ground gained in the first half of act two. Look at this like you would a baseball score — protagonist 2, antagonist 0. The antagonist wants to score, catch up, and pass the  ...
Stephen V. Duncan, 2006
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Psychodrama: A Beginner's Guide
The other members of the group enact diverse roles assigned to them by the protagonist and the director. The way they understand and sense a given psychodramatic situation contributes to the resolution of the protagonist's conflicts , but at ...
Zoran Djuric, 2006
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A Theory of Narrative
The effect of continued investment of curiosity regarding the destiny of the protagonist is to bind the reader irreversibly to that destiny. While we must view the protagonist from without, we nevertheless imaginatively adopt the protagonist's ...
Rick Altman, 2008
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Joe Christmas: A Critical Analysis of William Faulkner’s ...
1.Introduction ”...Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs...”(Light in August 255) These are the words of Joe Christmas at the age of thirty-six.
Nancy Hadlich, 2008
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Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition
Among the many questions raised by the text, one of the first to confront readers head-on at the outset is that of the identity of the protagonist of the poem; whose voice is it that we hear narrating the journey? The question of narrative voice ...
Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa, 1995
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Social Workers' Desk Reference
of the protagonist, through whose behavior a so- lution would be illustrated. A second, less practical method is for the therapist to introduce direct instructions that represent words spoken to the protagonist. This latter example is often called  ...
Albert R. Roberts, 2009
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The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the ...
Sophocles' Oedipus and the Prehistory of the Protagonist “One man cannot be the same as many.” —Oedipus Rex, 850 Oedipus says that he met Laius at a triple road, but Jocasta calls the meeting of the ways from Daulia and Delphi a split ...
Alex Woloch, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROTAGONIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term protagonist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Protagonist Therapeutics Raises $40 Million Series C Financing to …
Protagonist Therapeutics is a U.S.-incorporated biotechnology company engaged in the discovery and development of 'orally stable peptides' as 'targeted ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
2
Tales of Berseria Protagonist's Personality Changed Just Like The …
For the first time in the series,the game will feature a main solo female protagonist. 4Gamer provides a look at some of the latest screenshots and details on the ... «Siliconera, Jun 15»
3
Here's Why Fallout 4's Main Characters Have Voice Acting
Fallout 3, of course, featured a silent protagonist, with the hero's dialogue chosen by players from a list of possible topics and responses but never actually heard ... «Game Rant, Jun 15»
4
Bandai Namco's 'Tales Of Berseria' To Have Lone Female Protagonist
Previous games, like “Tales of Xillia,” have had female protagonists, but they usually shared the spotlight with a male character. So the fact that the spotlight will ... «International Business Times, Jun 15»
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Cannes: Protagonist Picks Up Sequel of Danish Hit 'Klown'
LONDON — Protagonist Pictures has taken on worldwide sales rights outside Nordic territories to “Klown Forever,” the sequel to the 2010 hit Danish comedy ... «Variety, May 15»
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'Mateu always wants to be a protagonist' - Busquets slams 'absurd …
Busquets has now accused referee Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz of wanting to be "a protagonist" in the game. "To get a second card for that is absurd but we ... «Goal.com, Apr 15»
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Watch Meryl Streep explain why female film protagonists have a …
Meryl Streep shared her theory about why it's hard for female filmmakers to break into the entertainment industry Wednesday night acting as a panelist at the ... «Entertainment Weekly, Apr 15»
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New IRS emails show protagonist's concerns
Internal Revenue Service officials moved to create a training program in order to limit the release of information to Congress, documents released Thursday by ... «McClatchy Washington Bureau, Apr 15»
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'Queen And Country' Follows A Familiar Protagonist Through A New …
In John Boorman's first semi-autobiographical film, 1987's Hope and Glory, war came to the school-age protagonist's London. In Queen and Country, set roughly ... «NPR, Feb 15»
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Persona 5's Thief Protagonist, Arsene and Gameplay Explained
Gematsu reports that Dengeki PlayStation has posted a feature that provides a lot of details about Persona 5. We got some snazzy new pictures of its protagonist ... «Arcade Sushi, Feb 15»

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