Character and Specimen

Character

Character noun - A member of the human race.

Usage example: you wouldn't believe what kind of characters hang around the bus station

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Specimen and character are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Specimen" instead a noun "Character".

Specimen noun - A member of the human race.

Usage example: he's a particularly handsome specimen

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Character and specimen are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Character" instead a noun "Specimen".

good	good character	good specimen
female	female character	female specimen
special	special character	special specimen
best	best character	best specimen
Other adjectives: dead, single, strong, entire, real, male, black, new, last, older, previous.

See also A Kind of One for cases where there's some ambiguity concerning whether the quirky character is just a character who is quirky or a perfectly average specimen of a quirky species.

Source: Planet of Copyhats
The title character is actually named Dan Chambeaux, and hates his nickname because it makes him sound like a decrepit, rotting "shambler", not the well-preserved specimen of walking dead he is.

Source: Embarrassing Nickname
To quote the character description for the sample Ubermenschen Genius:Like all Ubermenschen who are not exterminated before adulthood, Ilsa Hauser is an excellent physical specimen in the narrow mold of the Nazi ideal: tall, blond, athletic, and pale.

Source: Tabletop Game / Genius: The Transgression

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