multicharacter

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adjective

Involving or performing multiple characters

OriginEnglish character ← Middle English caracter ← Old French caractere →
Scrabble 23
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Meanings

adjectivemulticharacter (not comparable)
  1. not comparableartInvolving or performing multiple characters

    I invite readers to sample Emma Thompson’s odious multicharacter turn in “Angels in America” […].

    2007 April 15, “Handel and the Jews; Foreign Treasures; Accents and Acting”, in New York Times
  2. not comparablecomputingConsisting of more than one character (unit of text).

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mel-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ml̥tós?
  3. Proto-Italic*moltos
  4. Latinmultus
  5. Latinmultī
  6. Middle Englishmulti-
  7. Englishmulti-
  8. Ancient Greekχαράσσω (kharássō)
  9. Ancient Greekχαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)
  10. Latincharactēr
  11. Old Frenchcaractere
  12. Middle Englishcaracter
  13. Englishcharacter
  14. Englishmulticharacter

From multi- + character.

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APA

multicharacter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multicharacter

MLA

“multicharacter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multicharacter. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “multicharacter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multicharacter.

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