Usually means: Main characters driving the story.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. protagonists: Merriam-Webster
  2. protagonists: Collins English Dictionary
  3. protagonists: Vocabulary.com
  4. Protagonists, protagonist's, protagonists: Wordnik
  5. protagonists: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. protagonists: Wiktionary
  7. protagonists: Dictionary.com
  8. protagonists: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Protagonists: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Protagonists: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Protagonists: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Protagonists: Encyclopedia

(Note: See protagonist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (protagonist)

noun:  (authorship) The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
noun:  A leading person in a contest; a principal performer.
noun:  (proscribed) An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.
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