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 Translation for 'personification' from English to Bulgarian
NOUN   a personification | personifications
SYNO incarnation | personification | prosopopoeia
personification {noun}олицетворение {ср}
personification {noun}персонификация {ж}
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Usage Examples English
  • On Roman coins, Euthenia is often compared to Abundantia, the personification of abundance and prosperity, and Annona, the personification of the grain supply to Rome.
  • Jerónimo de Mendieta determines that Iztac-Mixcoatl is the personification of the Milky Way, the inhabitant of Chicomoztoc that the Nahuas call ‘White Cloud Serpent’, since such is the shape of the great nebula in the sky.
  • After the Anglo-Irish treaty, the Irish Free State government invited Lavery to create an image of a female personification of Ireland for the new Irish banknotes.
  • A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda.
  • Helvetia is the female personification of Switzerland.

  • Hellas or Ellada is the personification of the nation of Greece, dating back to Ancient Greece.
  • Hungaria is a national personification of Hungary, an allegory and a personification of the nation.
  • "The Union of Earth and Water" is a Baroque painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing Cybele as the personification of earth holding the horn of plenty and Neptune as the personification of water in the center.
  • Čechie is the personification of the Czech nation, which was used in the 19th century as reaction on personification of competing nationalism represented by Germania or Austria.
  • has been the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as a personification of liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.

  • Personification as an artistic device is easier to discuss when belief in the personification as an actual spiritual being has died down; this seems to have happened in the ancient Graeco-Roman world, probably even before Christianisation.
  • To the Romans "Africa" was above all North Africa, which they had conquered, and the goddess/personification was not given African characteristics; she was possibly thought of as Berber, but this cannot be judged in the great majority of representations.
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