persona

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: per=so=na

CIDE DICTIONARY

persona, n. [L.].

 Same as Person, n., 8.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

persona, n. (pl. personae)
1 an aspect of the personality as shown to or perceived by others (opp. ANIMA).
2 Literary criticism an author's assumed character in his or her writing.

Idiom

persona grata a person, esp. a diplomat, acceptable to certain others. persona non grata a person not acceptable.

Etymology

L (as PERSON)

THESAURUS

persona

an existence, anima, article, being, body, character, coconscious, collective unconscious, conscience, conscious self, creature, critter, death instinct, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, entelechy, entity, ethical self, exterior, facade, face, foreconscious, front, guise, id, identity, individual, integer, item, libidinal energy, libido, life, mask, mind, module, monad, motive force, object, organism, part, person, personality, pleasure principle, point, preconscious, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, racial unconscious, role, self, single, singleton, something, soul, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, thing, unconscious, unconscious mind, unit, vital impulse